app

App Library

This library supports Taskcluster microservices, providing a pre-built Express server based on a common configuration format.

The usage is pretty simple. It is generally invoked in a taskcluster-lib-loader stanza named server, like this:

const App = require('taskcluster-lib-app');
...
  server: {
    requires: ['cfg', 'api', 'docs'],
    setup: ({cfg, api, docs}) => App({
        apis: [api],
        port: 80,
        env: 'production',
        forceSSL: true,
        docs,
      });
    },
  },

The configuration (here cfg.server) has the following options:

• apis: a list of taskcluster-lib-api APIs
• port: port to run the server on
• env: either 'development' or 'production'
• forceSSL: true to redirect to https using sslify; set to true for production
• trustProxy: trust headers from the proxy; set to true for production
• contentSecurityPolicy: include a CSP header with default-src: none; default is true
• robotsTxt: include a /robots.txt; default is true

The values of the apis key are from taskcluster-lib-api; each is the result of the APIBuilder.build method in that library. In particular, each object should have an express(app) method which configures an Express app for the API.

The resulting object is an express server, up and running on the given port. In testing, save this object and call its terminate() method to stop the server.

Debugging Abuse

To debug unexpected use of the server, enable DEBUG=app:request to see a log line for each request, including the requesting IP and referrer and user-agent headers.