I have a background with a spring boot, but I started learning NodeJS (Express). In Express, the business logic is included in the controllers and there are no services, but there are routes, that resemble the controllers in Spring Boot.
Which components represents the controllers, services and repositories in Express?
For example, in spring boot, the request parameters are validated in the controller and the business logic is executed in the service. However, in Express I have the feeling, that the both operations are done by the controller.
Is there a cheat sheet for express as a Spring Boot developer.
Designing the flow and structure of your backend is up to YOU as a developer – not the language. Nothing is stopping you from designing a backend using express where the request parameters are validated in the controller and business logic is executed in service files. As a matter of fact, every Express API I have built follows that exact process.
I'll link an API that I created, but feel free to use any of the following resources:
https://github.com/sidd-mittal/REST-API
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rest-api-design-best-practices-build-a-rest-api/
TLDR; building you're API structure is language-agnostic, choose whatever suits your wants and needs.
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I have angular 6 micro front end application. It's having 4 different applications inside Main application. And how do i implement routing between those applications.And how do i implement routing in Main application (i have many child routes in Main application) and Sub applications too. I am using "#angular/elements".
Please find my code in this this repository https://github.com/nagaraju123/microfrontend
Routing for a "true" microfrontend architecture should follow:
Each microfrontend is a separate service in your infrastructure
You have an ingress/reverse proxy in front of these services that allows routing to a specific service based on path
You have a single domain name: app.yoursite.com
You configure the ingress to route to the correct microfrontend based on path (e.g. /namespace/accounting goes to the accounting frontend)
The microfrontends themselves control how they make requests (e.g. the accounting frontend serves some accountingPage.js, and code within that page will make all fetch requests with prefix: /namespace/accounting)
Summary:
It really depends on what you mean by "microfrontend" though. Often when people say microfrontend, they refer to creating separate JS bundles, but still sharing a single backend.
A "true" microfrontend architecture achieves total encapsulation of both the static assets/javascript and the backend/request handlers. Separation of concerns, not separation of technologies. Code served by one microfrontend is totally isolated from code served by another... stitched together by a common "platform" service.
Imagine I have an angular project as a front-end which communicates with some other projects which are restful services.
In some pages I need to fetch some data from different restful services,
Is that okay to request any restful service individually in angular?
Or call one restful service which itself call other restful services in back-end?
Or I have to call one restful service but add other entities to this DbContext which I need here just to query?
It depends on what you're doing, but I would say mostly it's OK to do this. This is an established microservices pattern called "Composite UI". See this for details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-architecture/architect-microservice-container-applications/microservice-based-composite-ui-shape-layout
If your microservices are using the CQRS pattern, (while still not wrong) you may be missing an opportunity to compose a view-specific "view model". However, if you're composing\showing data from multiple domains I would say that it's still better to just call multiple microservices to retrieve the data you need.
The only problem you may be introducing if you're not careful, is introducing projection logic (which is not THAT bad) or business logic (very very bad) in your client code if you're doing any processing on the data you receive in order to display it. Composite UI is meant to server a UI with clearly separated sections.
I am writing my app and I want to do the following:
On the first request, I serve all the client side code (views, models, controllers, css ...) and subsequently I want to do RESTful api calls to the server to populate my app with data.
I've been looking everywhere but can't find a complete example. Connect serves a static directory but after that I don't know how to route RESTful api requests.
I'd recommend that you use Expressjs on top of Connect for request routing:
http://expressjs.com/api.html
Its a very straight forward framework, with tons of tutorials online. Here is a good one for getting started:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/10/creating-a-rest-api-using-node-js-express-and-mongodb/
I understand that Express resides on the server and Angular resides on the client but, as far as I know, Angular can do everything that Express can do which is
routing
interacting with the database
It kind of seems like maybe Express is needed in order for an AngularJS app to be served by Node.js but I'm not sure.
So what are the benefits to adding Express to an AngularJS app?
There are things which should be done server side (i.e. Express, not Angular), most notably user input validation - Angular, as it's client side, can be tampered.
Also, if you'll ever want to offer access type other than web app (i.e. mobile app), you'll probably need an API anyway - Express can do this, Angular don't.
Finally, database access - usually Angular app will need to connect to some kind of backend to perform CRUD operations. You'll either go with hosted DB like Firebase, or you'll end up using your own database. Latter scenario is more popular and you'll need Express (or similar) for that.
Express and AngularJS do not mutually exclude one another, they serve different purpose - in fact it's perfectly fine to use both - express for all your serverside logic, and Angular for client side logic.
Express can be used to host the APIs for AngularJS's service/factory to consume. You can consider AngularJS as MVC and the API on Express as SOA.
There is lot of stuff that one wants to control from server. And that is the place where the server side frameworks come into picture.
An web app is not just some html pages linked together. There are lot of other things that needs to be implemented
Model validation.
Keeping model consistent. Remember multiple users can access the same model at any give time and even change it.
Controlling resource access.
Triggering workflows.
Business Logic.
and other such thing require a server framework. So as mentioned earlier the client side frameworks like AngularJS complement server side frameworks.
I'm looking into solutions for integrating Ember.js with Node.js+Express+Tower.js.
I just started looking into Tower.js (the last couple of hours), and it looks like that the framework provides a nice structure for placing both server-side and client-side code (similar to the assets folder in Rails).
Since everything is in Javascript, I could either place Ember application code:
Entirely on the client, i.e., send everything on first request.
Serve only what is initially needed, and serve the rest only upon request.
In the 2nd solution, one could render the views on the server and send pure HTML.
Also what about the application logic of Ember (controllers, models, states, ...). How can it better be integrated with server-side Javascript (e.g., node.js+Express+Tower.js), so that
repeated code is minimized. In an ideal scenario, you define each model/controller/etc once and its used both on the server and on the client.
We are integrating Ember.js into the core of Tower.js, this has been planned from the beginning.
https://github.com/viatropos/tower/blob/development/test/cases/support/emberTest.coffee
Not quite there yet. But it's happening next.
Ember currently works in Node.js and the Browser, as does Tower. Controllers on the server will work like Rails' with web socket additions. Controllers on the client will work like they do on the server and like with Ember, with web socket support - still fleshing this out.