Fulton Server

Fulton Server is integrated many essential features and packages that a functional web server needs. Using Fulton Sever can accelerate a lot of time from building a state of art web server from scratch.

CLI

Using Fulton Server with Fulton CLI can helps you get started with Fulton.

Integration

typescript

we encourage you use Fulton Server with typescript because typescript provide better experiences than pure javascript. Also, Fulton Server takes the advantage of decoration of typescript.

For Example,

@router("/my")
class MyRouter extends Router {
    @httpGet()
    hi(req, res){
        res.send("Hi there")
    }
}

here @router and @httpGet are the decorators. As you can see, it make your code more meaningful.

express

Fulton Server is based on express. express is a very lite and the most popular web framework for nodejs. And we use the feature of decoration of typescript to build Router. See Router for more information.

inversify

Dependency Injection(DI) and inversion of control(IoC) are a good developing pattern. And inversify is a very mature package, so we includes it into Fulton Server. See DI for more information.

passport

Authentication is a basic feature of a web server. Fulton Server providers this feature definitely. Authentication is somehow complicated, so Fulton Server integrates passport, a useful authentication package, to help your web server authenticate users. See Identity for more information.

typeorm

Fulton Server takes the advantages of typeorm to connect multiple database engine. See Entity for more information.

swagger

Fulton Server can generate swagger.json that might help export your web server to other service. Also, Fulton Server embedded the swagger ui, so developments can see the api docs with look at code. See docs for more information.

winston

Fulton Server uses winston for its loggers. See logging for more information.

jsonapi

Fulton Server fully supports jsonapi.

Options

We want Fulton can be easy to configure, so we put almost every configurable settings in options variable. For example,

export class ExampleApp extends FultonApp {
    protected async onInit(options: FultonAppOptions): Promise<any> {
        options.routers = [
            FoodRouter,
            IngredientRouter
        ];
        
        options.entities = [Food, Ingredient]

        options.cors.enabled = true;
        options.docs.enabled = true;

        options.identity.enabled = true;
        options.identity.google.enabled = true;
    }
}

Fulton Server has js-docs for almost all of public classes, functions and members on its typescript declaration files. Therefore, typescript supported IDEs such as Visual Studio Code can give you Auto-Complete with documents that can improve the coding experiences as this picture.

As you can see, the features of Fulton Server can be very easy to change. See Options for more information.

Requirements

• node.js > 7.0, Fulton Server uses a lot of features on ES2015 and ES2016, so it needs newer version of nodejs
• typescript > 2.4

Issues

There are some known issues, see the notes to avoid the issues.

• Because typescript isn't really a programming language. The ts code will compiled to javascript. And javascript doesn't have interface and generic type and a lot features which only exists on typescript for helping coding experience. After compiling, they are all gone. For example,

  // typescript
  interface MyInterface{
  	p1: string;
  	p2: string;
  }
  
  class MyClass <T extends MyInterface> {
  	p1: T;
  	p2: T;
  }
  

  // the javascript that complied from typescript
  class MyClass {
  }
  // all others staff are gone.

• zone.js has a problem for es2017. use es2016 for now.