Shield Server

Shield Server is a express middlewares bundle, which could help developer to bootstrap a backend project in few minutes.

The features provided by Shield Server

• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
• Compression
• History API
• JSend (JSON Response Specification)
• Reverse Proxy
• HTTP Header Security
• Splunk Logger (HEC - HTTP Event Collector)
• Error Handlers

Top features are powered by following popular middlewares:

• body-parser
• compression
• connect-history-api-fallback
• cookie-parser
• cors
• helmet
• http-proxy-middleware
• morgan

Getting Started

Installation

npm install @cplabs/shield-server

# or use yarn

yarn add @cplabs/shield-server

Usage

Codeless mode

# Default
shield-server .

Codeless CLI Configuration

• --port
• --cors
• --debug
• --history-api-fallback
• --ssl-cert
• --ssl-key

Middleware mode

const express = require('express');
const {
  defaultMiddlewares,
  defaultErrorHandlers,
  logger,
} = require('@cplabs/shield-server');

const app = express();

app.use(defaultMiddlewares());
app.use(defaultErrorHandlers());

app.listen(8080, () => {
  logger.info(`Server start...`);
});

Configuration

Default configs

https://github.com/customer-portal-labs/shield-server/blob/9394a255a6c7ee206730918e6f7fa1b4d63c0862/src/config.ts#L9-L27

Options

name

type String

The application name

compression

cors

corsOption

mode

• static
• api
• fullstack

morganFormat

• combined
• common
• dev
• short
• tiny

port

type int

default 8080

debug

type boolean

default false

ssl

splunk

splunk.httpRequest

splunk.

staticDir

publicPath

proxies

rewrite

historyApiFallback

helmetOption

loggerLevel

requestBodySize