jsonapi-server


A config driven NodeJS framework implementing json:api and GraphQL. You define the resources, it provides the api.

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This framework solves the challenges of json:api and GraphQL without coupling us to any one ORM solution. Every other module out there is either tightly coupled to a database implementation, tracking an old version of the json:api spec, or is merely a helper library for a small feature. If you're building an API and your use case only involves reading and writing to a data store... well count yourself lucky. For everyone else, this framework provides the flexibility to provide a complex API without being confined to any one technology.

A config driven approach to building an API enables:
* Enforced json:api responses
* Automatic GraphQL schema generation
* Request validation
* Payload validation
* Automatic documentation generation
* Automatic inclusions
* Automatic routing
* Automatic handling of relationships

Ultimately, the only things you as a user of this framework need to care about are:
* What are my resources called
* What properties do my resources have
* For each resource, implement a handler for:
* createing a resource
* deleteing a resource
* searching for many resources
* finding a specific resource
* updateing a specific resource

We've created handlers to automatically map our config over to database solutions help people get off the ground:
* jsonapi-store-memoryhandler - an in-memory data store to enable rapid prototyping. This ships as a part of jsonapi-server and powers the core test suite.
* jsonapi-handler-chain - a handler to chain custom behaviour around an existing handler. This ships as a part of jsonapi-server. More info can be found here
* jsonapi-store-relationaldb - using sequelize to support PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MariaDB and SQLite.
* jsonapi-store-mongodb - for MongoDB.
* jsonapi-store-elasticsearch - for Elasticsearch.
jsonapi-store-dynamodb - !SIGNIFICANT WIP!* for AWS DynamoDB.

We've also written a library to ease the consumption of a json:api compliant service, if GraphQL isn't your thing:
* jsonapi-client - for NodeJS and Browsers

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- Suggested Project Structure
- Configuring jsonapi-server
- Automatic Swagger Generation
- Defining Resources
- Debugging
- Foreign Key Relations
- Chaining handlers together
- Custom Handlers
- Post Processing Examples
- Migrating from an existing express server
- Application metrics

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You can have a complete json:api server providing a photos resource with just this:
``javascript
var jsonApi = require("jsonapi-server");

jsonApi.setConfig({
port: 16006,
graphiql: true
});

jsonApi.define({
resource: "photos",
handlers: new jsonApi.MemoryHandler(),
attributes: {
title: jsonApi.Joi.string(),
url: jsonApi.Joi.string().uri(),
height: jsonApi.Joi.number().min(1).max(10000).precision(0),
width: jsonApi.Joi.number().min(1).max(10000).precision(0)
}
});

jsonApi.start();
`
Your new API will be alive at http://localhost:16006/ and your photos resources will be at http://localhost:16006/photos. The GraphiQL interface will be available at http://localhost:16006/.

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Fire up an example json:api server using the resources mentioned in the official spec via:
`
$ git clone https://github.com/holidayextras/jsonapi-server.git
$ npm install
$ npm start
`
then browse to the JSON:API endpoints:
`
http://localhost:16006/rest/photos
`
or, for GraphQL:
`
http://localhost:16006/rest/
``
the example implementation can be found here