now-server

Create a proxy sever from a rules.json following specifications in https://zeit.co/docs/features/path-aliases. The server will behave identical to now alias [your-domain.com] -r rules.json.

It will not manage your microservices, but this is easy to configure with pm2.

Getting Started

npm install -g now-server pm2

Create a rules.json with

• rules
• apps

For example:

{
  "apps" : [{
    "name"        : "now-server",
    "script"      : "node_modules/.bin/now-server",
    "args"        : "-r rules.json",
    "watch"       : ["rules.json"]
  },{
    "name"        : "service1",
    "script"      : "service1/index.js",
    "watch"       : ["service1"],
    "env": {
        "PORT":3001
    }
  },{
    "name"        : "service2",
    "script"      : "service2/index.js",
    "watch"       : ["service2"],
    "env": {
        "PORT":3002
    }
  }],
  "rules": [
    {
      "dest": "http://localhost:3001",
      "pathname": "/service1"
    },
    {
      "dest": "http://localhost:3002",
      "pathname": "/service2"
    }
  ]
}

The apps part follows the pm2 application declaration.

Usage

# proxy server only 
now-server -r rules.json -p 3000
 
# proxy server with microservices 
pm2 start rules.json
 
pm2 ls    # status 
pm2 kill  # kill it 

Changelog

0.4.0

• bugfix broken path forwarding

0.3.0

• Add not found handling
• Don't prepend path of destination (now does not do that either!)

0.2.1 - bugfix to make script run with node