tjanczuk/webapiperf

A test case for benchmarking performance of web APIs in node.js

Simple Web API service in node.js

What it is

This is a simple node.js HTTP application that can be hosted in IIS using iisnode or self-hosted with node directly. It exposes two HTTP APIs:

GET /Customer/{customerId} will return a pre-baked JSON object with customer information.

POST /Order/{customerId} will accept and parse any JSON document in the body of the HTTP requst, and return a pre-baked array of JSON objects representing orders

Prerequisities

• node.js
• iisnode

Setting up

git clone https://github.com/tjanczuk/webapiperf
cd webapiperf
npm install

Running self-hosted

cd webapiperf
node server.js

Then visit the URL http://localhost:8000/Customer/12.

By default the server will listen on port 8000. This can be overriden by setting the PORT environment variable before starting node.

The self-hosted configuration will use cluster to create as many node.exe worker processes as there are CPU cores on the machine. This allows full utilization of the CPU under stress.

Running in IIS

Create a new Web Site in IIS and point it to the webapiperf directory. Then visit the url, e.g. http://localhost:9000/Customer/12.

NOTE: the application must be hosted at the root of the web site, not in a virtual directory underneath in order for the URL paths in the application to match the requests.