Microbrew.it Middleware

The middleware takes care of rendering and serving the frontend on http://microbrew.it.

Installation and requirements

microbrew-it-middleware requires Node.js to run.

Development

Installing requirements: npm install -g forever nodemon && npm install.

NOTE: You will need to install GNU Parallels to run the npm run watch-dev task (see below). On OS X with Homebrew installed this is as simple as running brew install parallels.

Available npm scripts:

• npm start Run with production settings (+ forever as daemon)
• npm run dev Run with development settings (+ nodemon as daemon)
• npm run build-css Uses node-sass to compile scss.
• npm run watch-css Uses nodemon + node-sass to compile scss on the fly.
• npm run watch-dev Uses GNU Parallel to run watch-css and dev.

By default microbrew.it listens to port 3000. This can be changed in config.coffee.

Production

Installing requirements: npm install -g forever && npm install --production.

Make sure the configurations in config.coffee for the production setting is correct.

Running the project:

• npm start - This runs the middleware in a forever container which restarts the process should it fail.

Docker

The Microbrew.it Middleware is also available as a Docker image at hub.docker.com. To run the docker container> docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -e API_URL=http://dev.microbrew.it -e CLIENT_ID=localhost:3000 -e PORT=3000 microbrewit/microbrew-it-middleware:latest

A note on dependencies

We use npm shrinkwrap and shrinkpack to lock our dependencies.

Licence

microbrew-it-middleware is licenced under MIT. For details see LICENCE.