Koatty 🚀

Koa + TypeScript + IOC = Koatty. Koatty is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications. It's perfect for crafting enterprise-level APIs, microservices, and full-stack applications with TypeScript excellence.

Why Koatty? 💡

• 🚄 High Performance: Built on top of Koa with optimized architecture
• 🧩 Full-Featured: Supports gRPC, HTTP, WebSocket, scheduled tasks, and more
• 🧠 TypeScript First: Native TypeScript support with elegant OOP design
• 🌀 Spring-like IOC Container: Powerful dependency injection system with autowiring
• ✂️ AOP Support: Aspect-oriented programming with decorator-based interceptors
• 🔌 Extensible Architecture: Plugin system with dependency injection
• 📦 Modern Tooling: CLI scaffolding, testing utilities, and production-ready configurations
• 🌐 Protocol Agnostic: Write once, deploy as HTTP/gRPC/WebSocket services

✨ New Features

• ✅ Multi-Protocol Architecture - Run HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, gRPC, WebSocket, and GraphQL simultaneously
• ✅ Intelligent Metadata Cache - LRU caching with preloading for 70%+ performance boost
• ✅ Protocol-Specific Middleware - Bind middleware to specific protocols with @Middleware({ protocol: [...] })
• ✅ Graceful Shutdown - Enhanced connection pool management and cleanup handlers
• ✅ Enhanced gRPC Support - Timeout detection, duplicate call protection, streaming improvements
• ✅ Application Lifecycle Hooks - Custom decorators with BindEventHook API for boot/ready/stop events
• ✅ Version Conflict Detection - Automatic detection and resolution of dependency conflicts
• ✅ GraphQL over HTTP/2 - Automatic HTTP/2 upgrade with SSL for multiplexing and compression
• ✅ Global Exception Handling - @ExceptionHandler() decorator for centralized error management
• ✅ OpenTelemetry Tracing - Full-stack observability with distributed tracing
• 💪 Swagger/OpenAPI 3.0 - Automatic API documentation generation

Core Features ✨

📡 Multi-Protocol Support

Koatty now supports running multiple protocols simultaneously on different ports. Configure multiple servers easily:

// config/config.ts
export default {
  ...
  server: {
    hostname: '127.0.0.1',
    port: 3000,
    protocol: ["http", "grpc"], // Multiple protocols: 'http' | 'https' | 'http2' | 'http3' | 'grpc' | 'ws' | 'wss' | 'graphql'
    trace: false,
  },
  ...
}

Single Protocol (backward compatible):

// config/config.ts
export default {
  server: {
    protocol: "grpc", // Single protocol
  }
}

Multi-Protocol Router Configuration:

When using multiple protocols, configure protocol-specific extensions in config/router.ts:

// config/router.ts
export default {
  ext: {
    // HTTP protocol config (optional)
    ...,
    
    // gRPC protocol config (optional)
    protoFile: "./resource/proto/Hello.proto",
    poolSize: 10,
    streamConfig: { messageCount: 50 }
    
    
    // WebSocket protocol config (optional)
    maxFrameSize: 1024 * 1024,
    heartbeatInterval: 15000,
    maxConnections: 1000
  }
}

How It Works:

• koatty_serve automatically creates server instances for each protocol
• koatty_router creates dedicated router instances for each protocol
• Controllers are automatically registered to appropriate routers based on their decorators
• HTTP controllers (@Controller) work with HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2
• gRPC controllers (@GrpcController) work with gRPC
• GraphQL controllers (@GraphQLController) work with GraphQL (over HTTP/HTTPS)
• WebSocket controllers (@WsController) work with WebSocket

Important Notes:

• GraphQL Protocol: GraphQL is an application-layer protocol that runs over HTTP/HTTP2, not a separate transport protocol. When you specify protocol: "graphql", Koatty automatically:

  • Uses HTTP as transport by default
  • Uses HTTP/2 when SSL certificates are configured (recommended for production)

• GraphQL over HTTP/2 (Recommended): HTTP/2 provides significant benefits for GraphQL:

  • Multiplexing: Handle multiple queries over a single connection
  • Header Compression: Reduce bandwidth for large queries
  • Server Push: Prefetch related resources
  • HTTP/1.1 Fallback: Automatic downgrade for compatibility

  To enable HTTP/2 for GraphQL, configure in config/config.ts:

  // config/config.ts
  export default {
    server: {
      protocol: "graphql",
      ssl: {
        mode: 'auto',
        key: './ssl/server.key',
        cert: './ssl/server.crt'
      },
      ext: {
        maxConcurrentStreams: 100  // Optional: HTTP/2 config
      }
    }
  }

  And configure GraphQL schema in config/router.ts:

  // config/router.ts
  export default {
    ext: {
      schemaFile: "./resource/graphql/schema.graphql"
    }
  }

💉 Dependency Injection

Enhanced Features: -✅ Intelligent Metadata Cache - LRU caching mechanism, significantly improves performance -✅ Metadata Preloading - Preload at startup, optimize component registration -✅ Version Conflict Detection - Automatically detect and resolve dependency version conflicts -✅ Circular Dependency Detection - Circular dependency detection and resolution suggestions

@Service()
export class UserService {
  async findUser(id: number) {
    return { id, name: 'Koatty User' };
  }
}

@Controller()
export class IndexController {
    app: App;
    ctx: KoattyContext;
    @Config("server")
    conf: { protocol: string | string[] };
    ...

    @Autowired()
    private userService: UserService;

    async test(id: number) {
        const info = await this.userService.findUser(id);
        ...
    }
}

Performance Improvements:

// In Loader.ts - Metadata is now preloaded for optimal performance
IOC.preloadMetadata(); // Preload all metadata to populate cache

// Intelligent caching reduces reflect operations by 70%+
// Cache hits: ~95% in typical applications

🌐 Multi-Protocol Controllers

Different controllers for different protocols:

// HTTP Controller
@Controller('/api')
export class UserController {
  @GetMapping('/users/:id')
  async getUser(@PathVariable('id') id: string) {
    return { id, name: 'User' };
  }
}

// gRPC Controller
@GrpcController('/Hello')
export class HelloController {
  @PostMapping('/SayHello')
  @Validated()
  async sayHello(@RequestBody() params: SayHelloRequestDto): Promise<SayHelloReplyDto> {
    const res = new SayHelloReplyDto();
    res.message = `Hello, ${params.name}!`;
    return res;
  }
}

// GraphQL Controller (runs over HTTP/HTTPS)
@GraphQLController('/graphql')
export class UserController {
  @GetMapping()
  async getUser(@RequestParam() id: string): Promise<User> {
    return { id, name: 'GraphQL User' };
  }
  
  @PostMapping()
  async createUser(@RequestParam() input: UserInput): Promise<User> {
    return { id: input.id, name: input.name };
  }
}

✂️ Aspect-Oriented Programming

@Aspect()
export class LogAspect implements IAspect {
  app: App;

  run() {
    console.log('LogAspect');
  }
}

// Apply aspect to controller
@Controller()
@BeforeEach(LogAspect)
export class UserController {
  ...
  @After(LogAspect)
  test() {
    ...
  }
}

🔌 Plugin System & Middleware

Protocol-Specific Middleware:

// Middleware can now be bound to specific protocols
@Middleware({ protocol: ["http", "https"] })
export class HttpOnlyMiddleware implements IMiddleware {
  run(options: any, app: App) {
    return async (ctx: KoattyContext, next: Function) => {
      // This middleware only runs for HTTP/HTTPS protocols
      console.log('HTTP request:', ctx.url);
      await next();
    };
  }
}

Plugin System:

// plugin/logger.ts
export class LoggerPlugin implements IPlugin {
  app: App;

  run() {
    // Hook into application lifecycle events
    Logger.Debug("LoggerPlugin");
    return Promise.resolve();
  }
}

Application Lifecycle Events:

// Use BindEventHook to customize application behavior
export function CustomDecorator(): ClassDecorator {
  return (target: Function) => {
    BindEventHook(AppEvent.appBoot, async (app: KoattyApplication) => {
      // Executed during application boot
      console.log('App is booting...');
    }, target);
    
    BindEventHook(AppEvent.appReady, async (app: KoattyApplication) => {
      // Executed when app is ready
      console.log('App is ready!');
    }, target);
    
    BindEventHook(AppEvent.appStop, async (app: KoattyApplication) => {
      // Executed during graceful shutdown
      console.log('App is stopping...');
    }, target);
  };
}

Benchmarks 📊

| Framework | Requests/sec | Latency | Memory Usage | | ---------- | ------------ | ------- | ------------ | | Koatty | 13,321 | 1.43ms | 54MB | | Express | 12,456 | 1.45ms | 52MB | | NestJS | 11,892 | 1.51ms | 63MB |

Tested on AWS t3.micro with 100 concurrent connections

Documentation 📚

• 中文文档
• Getting Started Guide
• API Reference
• Recipes & Best Practices
• Example

Quick Start ⚡

1. Install CLI:

npm install -g koatty_cli

2. Create Project:

koatty new awesome-app

3. Run Development Server:

cd awesome-app
npm run dev

Community 🌍

• GitHub Discussions

Contributors ✨

Thanks to these amazing developers:

License 📄

BSD-3 © Koatty Team