Docky is a tool to quickly build a fully-functional REST API without needing to invest time on setting up specific endpoint and operations.
Instead of that, it brings a Firebase-like approach, offering a documents service through which perform CRUD operations on a database.
Additionally, an authentication service is offered to generate jwt tokens after validating the user's e-mail ownership.
All of this, offering extensible mechanisms to customize the service to meet the requirements of the application.
- @useful-tools/authentication-service - Offers a basic authentication flow, in which the user is required to validate his e-mail address by confirming a code sent to it. Once a user is logged, a JWT token is signed and provieded to the client. This is an optional component, and is not required in case the final application does not need to authenticate users, or in case a third-party authentication service is preferred to manage the authentication of the users.
- @useful-tools/documents-service - Offers a set of endpoints to perform CRUD operations on a database. It is the core component of Docky. The documents service offers the possibility to extend the default behavior of the endpoints by defining when an operation is authorized or denied, additionally it is possible to add custom Express middlewares or add custom endpoints by interacting with the Express app object.
Please refer to the documentation of each package to know how to use it:
There are some projects that use Docky as a base to build their own services. You can check them out to see how Docky is used in real projects:
This is part of @useful-tools, a set of NPM packages intended to provide quick-to-learn and to use tools to build javascript applications.