cvignola/node-bff-95

nodebff95

Backend for Frontend (BFF) project with ExpressJS on NodeJS

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Requirements
• Configuration
• Run

Summary

A Backend for Frontend (BFF) is a pattern that allows your frontend to talk to your backend....

Requirements

Local Development Tools Setup (optional)

• Install the latest NodeJS 6+ LTS version.

Bluemix development tools setup (optional)

1. Install Docker on your machine.
2. Install the Bluemix CLI
3. Download the Bluemix developer tools plugin
4. Go to the directory you downloaded the image to, and install the plugin with:

bx plugin install <name-of-the-dev-plugin>

Configuration

Your application configuration information is stored in config.json:

{
  "vcap": {
    "services": {}
  }
}

If you selected services added to your project, you will see Cloudant, Object Storage, and other services with their connection information such as username, password, and hostname listed here. This is useful for connecting to remote services while running your application locally.

When you push your application to Bluemix, however, these values are no longer used, and instead Bluemix automatically connects to those bound services through the use of environment variables.

Run

Using Bluemix development CLI

The Bluemix development plugin makes it easy to compile and run your application if you do not have all of the tools installed on your computer yet. Your application will be compiled with Docker containers. To compile and run your app, run:

bx dev run

Your application will be running at http://localhost:8080/.

Using a local development environment

Visit http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.