🚀A Modern, Production-Ready, and Full-Stack Node Web Framework

An Introduction for koa-web-kit

• ✨Built with all modern frameworks and libs, including Koa2, React(like Vue?), Bootstrap-v4(css only)...
• 📦Get all the Node.JS full stack development experience out of the box
• 🔥Hot Module Replacement support without refreshing whole page, and bundle size analyzer support
• 📉Async/Await support for writing neat async code
• 💖SASS preprocessor, PostCSS, autoprefixer for better css compatibility
• 🎉Simple API Proxy bundled, no complex extra nginx configuration
• 🌈Available for generating static react site, also with SSR support
• ⚡️Just one npm command to deploy your app to production
• 👷Continuously Maintaining🍻

Get the latest version, and go to your project root,
Also available on npm, npm i koa-web-kit --save

Before start, recommend to copy the config/app-config.js.sample to config/app-config.js for local dev configuration

1. Install Dependencies

#with yarn, yarn.lock is included
yarn
#or npm, no package-lock.json is included, use it as your own taste 
npm install --no-shrinkwrap

2. Build Assets
   npm run build or npm run watch for auto recompile your code, or
   npm run dev to start koa with HMR enabled(step 2 & 3 combined, skip step 3)
3. Start Koa Http Server
   npm start
4. Go to http://localhost:3000 to view the default react page, the demo page is based on create-react-app

• api dir, the API Proxy utility, also put your api urls here for universal import across your app
• config dir, all webpack build configs are put here, besides, some application-wide env configs getter utility
• services dir(before mw), some middleware here, default logger utility also located here
• routes dir, put your koa app routes here
• src dir, all your front-end assets, react components, services, etc...
• test dir, for your tests
• utils dir, utilities for both node.js and front-end
• views dir, your view templates
• build dir, all built assets for your project, git ignored
• logs dir, logs are put here by default, git ignored
• All other files in project root, which indicate their purposes clearly😀.

Every project has some configuration or environment variables to make it run differently in different environment,
for koa-web-kit, we also provide different ways to configure your ENVs.

The pre bundled file app-config.js.sample lists some common variables to use in the project, you should copy and rename it to app-config.js for your local config:

module.exports = {
  //http server listen port
  "PORT": 3000,
  //most commonly used env
  "NODE_ENV": "development",
  //enable/disable built-in API Proxy
  "NODE_PROXY": true,
  //config the api proxy debug level, [0, 1, 2], 0 -> nothing, default: 1 -> simple, 2 -> verbose
  "PROXY_DEBUG_LEVEL": 1,
  //static endpoint, e.g CDN for your static assets
  "STATIC_ENDPOINT": "",
  //add a alternative prefix for your "STATIC_ENDPOINT"
  "STATIC_PREFIX": "",
  //add "/" to the end of your static url, if not existed
  "PREFIX_TRAILING_SLASH": true,
  //global prefix for your routes, e.g http://a.com/prefix/...your app routes,
  //like a github project site
  "APP_PREFIX": "",
  "CUSTOM_API_PREFIX": true,
  //if enable HMR in dev mode, `npm run dev` will automatically enable that
  "ENABLE_HMR": false,
  //if need to enable Server Side Rendering, HMR need to be disabled for now
  "ENABLE_SSR": false,
  //API Proxies for multiple api endpoints with different prefix in router
  "API_ENDPOINTS": {
    //set a default prefix
    "defaultPrefix": "/prefix",
    //e.g http://127.0.0.1:3000/prefix/api/login -->proxy to--> http://127.0.0.1:3001/api/login
    "/prefix": "http://127.0.0.1:3001",
    "/prefix2": "http://127.0.0.1:3002",
  }
}

All the variables in config.json can be set with Environment Variables, which have higher priority than app-config.js. e.g:
> NODE_ENV=production npm start
or

export PORT=3001
export NODE_ENV=production
npm start

BTW you can do Everything you can within cli to set your env.

The project comes with default config files just like config.json, which will be used if neither above are provided.

Priority: Environment Variables > app-config.js > default config.default./dev(prod).js

The builtin services/logger.js provides some default log functionality for your app, it uses winston for async log. You can add more transports for different level logging.

Deploy your app to production is extremely simple with only one npm script command, you can provide different options in different deployment phases(e.g: install, build, start server),
pm2 inside is used as node process manager.

Global installation of PM2 is not required now, we will use the locally installed pm2.

npm run deploy -- skipInstall skipBuild skipServer
The last three options are boolean values in 0(or empty, false) and 1(true).

• npm run deploy: no options provided, defaults do the tasks.
• npm run deploy -- 1: this will skip the npm install --no-shrinkwrap, and just go to build and start server.
• npm run deploy -- 1 0 1: which will only build your assets
• npm run deploy -- 1 1 0: which will just start node server, useful when all assets were built on a different machine.

You may need to create/update the script to meet your own needs.

MIT @ 2016-2018 jason