microservice / terminator

shuts down the server if an error occurs. tries to be nice about it.

usage

as middleware:

app.use(terminator(server[, config]))

see the example below.

config

timer

milliseconds to wait before calling process.exit(1)

• type: number (can be disabled with false)
• default: 5000

uncaughtException

whether or not to terminate on an uncaughtException event

• type: boolean
• default: true

example

var terminator = require('@microservice/terminator');

var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');

var app = express();
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.use(terminator(server, {
  timeout: 10000,
  uncaughtException: true
});
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  next(new Error());
});

server.listen(80);