feathers-async-boot

Booting FeathersJS asynchron.

• About
• Installation
• Configuration
• Example

About

Starting the application after all required tasks are done. For example you have to fill your memory storage with content before the application should start the http server.

Installation

npm install --save feathers-async-boot

Usage

• create a module which should do you asynchron task. This module must return a Promise

• register the async bootstrap module

• configure the async bootstrap

• Call app.start(). This will return a Promise.

  Example:

  const app = feathers();
  
  ...
  
  app.configure(boot);
  app.bootstrap([...modules]);
  
  app.start()
    .then(() => {
      app.listen(3040);
    })
    .catch(err => {
      logger.error(`error during boostrap the application. ${err}`);
    });

Configuration

Error handling

There are different posibilities to start your application, even on when your bootstrap modules are rejected.

ABORT

• with finally (using finally Node.js >= 10 is required)

  const app = feathers();

  app
    .start()
    .finally(() => {
       app.listen(3040);
    });

• or on rejection (using Node.js < 10)

  const app = feathers();

  app
    .start()
    .then(res => {

    })
    .catch(err => {
       app.listen(3040);
    });

WARN

The start will always resolve, as a result you get all possible errors

  const app = feathers();
  const ErrorHandling = requier('feathers-async-boot/lib/errorhandling');

  app
    .start(ErrorHandling.WARN)
    .then(res => {
       app.listen(3040);
    });

IGNORE

The start will always resolve, result will be always true

  const app = feathers();
  const ErrorHandling = requier('feathers-async-boot/lib/errorhandling');

  app
    .start(ErrorHandling.WARN)
    .then(res => {
       app.listen(3040);
    });

Example

const feathers = require('@feathersjs/feathers');
const express = require('@feathersjs/express');
const boot = require('feathers-async-boot');

const asyncModuleToBoot = require('./async-module-to-boot');

const app = express(feathers());

app.configure(boot);

app.bootstrap([asyncModuleToBoot]);
app.bootstrap([asyncModuleToBoot]);
app.bootstrap([asyncModuleToBoot]);


app
  .start()
  .then(res => {
      const server = app.listen(3040);
      server.on('listening', () => {
        console.log(`server started @ port ${server.address().port}`);
      });
  });

for more examples see the example directory.