Basic Node.js API server that uses Restify and logs in JSON-format to stderr.

npm install -S api-server-basic
# install and add to your package.json as a dependency

var serverBuilder = require('api-server-basic')

var requiredParams = {
  port: 0,
    // 0 = server will assign a port. Can be any port number
  name: 'My server',
    // used in logging and if someone does curl --head http://your-server.com/
  routes: aFunctionThatWillBeCalledToConfigureRoutes
    // will be called with opts that include opts.server == <the new server that was setup>
}

var optionalParams = {
  log: aBunyanCompatableLogger,
  logBeforeRouting: false // Default false. Set to true to log all requests before routing occurs.
}

var serverData = serverBuilder(requiredParams)

serverData.start()

• convenience function to start
• Returns a promise that is fulfilled with an object { port: <the actual port listened on> }

serverData.start(callback)

• convenience function to start the server listening.
• Calls the callback once the server is listening.

serverData.server

• the server itself

serverData.server.address().port

• the port the server is listening on, which is only set after the server is listening.

serverData.server.log({something: 'that you want to log'}, "this is a message to show that you can log stuff")

• server log will appear on stderr in JSON format

npm install
make test

MIT