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# What's included - Promise-based solution (async/await compatible) - request-reply concept - support event driven architecture with balancing - built-in service registry & dynamic service discovery - load balanced requests & events (round-robin, random, cpu-usage, latency, sharding) - many fault tolerance features (Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Retry, Timeout, Fallback) - plugin/middleware system - support versioned services - support [Streams](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/docs/api/stream.html) - service mixins - built-in caching solution (Memory, MemoryLRU, Redis) - pluggable loggers (Console, File, Pino, Bunyan, Winston, Debug, Datadog, Log4js) - pluggable transporters (TCP, NATS, MQTT, Redis, NATS Streaming, Kafka, AMQP 0.9, AMQP 1.0) - pluggable serializers (JSON, Avro, MsgPack, Protocol Buffer, Thrift, CBOR, Notepack) - pluggable parameter validator - multiple services on a node/server - master-less architecture, all nodes are equal - built-in parameter validation with [fastest-validator](https://github.com/icebob/fastest-validator) - built-in metrics feature with reporters (Console, CSV, Datadog, Event, Prometheus, StatsD) - built-in tracing feature with exporters (Console, Datadog, Event, Jaeger, Zipkin, NewRelic) - official [API gateway](https://github.com/moleculerjs/moleculer-web), [Database access](https://github.com/moleculerjs/moleculer-db) and many other modules... # Installation ``` $ npm i moleculer ``` or ``` $ yarn add moleculer ``` # Create your first microservice This example shows you how to create a small service with an `add` action which can add two numbers and how to call it. ```js const { ServiceBroker } = require("moleculer"); // Create a broker const broker = new ServiceBroker(); // Create a service broker.createService({ name: "math", actions: { add(ctx) { return Number(ctx.params.a) + Number(ctx.params.b); } } }); // Start broker broker.start() // Call service .then(() => broker.call("math.add", { a: 5, b: 3 })) .then(res => console.log("5 + 3 =", res)) .catch(err => console.error(`Error occurred! ${err.message}`)); ``` [Try it in your browser](https://codesandbox.io/s/ky5lj09jv?fontsize=14) # Create a Moleculer project Use the Moleculer CLI tool to create a new Moleculer based microservices project. 1. Create a new project (named `moleculer-demo`) ```bash $ npx moleculer-cli -c moleculer init project moleculer-demo ``` 2. Open the project folder ```bash $ cd moleculer-demo ``` 3. Start the project ```bash $ npm run dev ``` 4. Open the [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/) link in your browser. It shows a welcome page that contains more information about your project & you can test the generated services. :tada: **Congratulations! Your first Moleculer-based microservices project is created. Read our [documentation](https://moleculer.services/docs) to learn more about Moleculer.** ![Welcome page](docs/assets/project-welcome-page.png) # Official modules We have many official modules for Moleculer. [Check our list!](https://moleculer.services/modules.html) # Supporting Moleculer is an open source project. It is free to use for your personal or commercial projects. However, developing it takes up all our free time to make it better and better on a daily basis. If you like Moleculer framework, **[please support it](https://moleculer.services/support.html)**. Thank you very much! # For enterprise Available as part of the Tidelift Subscription. The maintainers of moleculer and thousands of other packages are working with Tidelift to deliver commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies you use to build your applications. Save time, reduce risk, and improve code health, while paying the maintainers of the exact dependencies you use. [Learn more.](https://tidelift.com/subscription/pkg/npm-moleculer?utm_source=npm-moleculer&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=enterprise&utm_term=repo) # Documentation You can find here [the documentation](https://moleculer.services/docs). # Changelog See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md). # Security contact information To report a security vulnerability, please use the [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security). Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure. # Contributions We welcome you to join in the development of Moleculer. Please read our [contribution guide](http://moleculer.services/docs/contributing.html).

## Project activity ![Alt](https://repobeats.axiom.co/api/embed/f4cb6da776e9edc2d8118aff4e0c1ae9afe37896.svg "Repobeats analytics image") # License Moleculer is available under the [MIT license](https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license). [3rd party licenses](https://app.fossa.io/reports/09fc5b4f-d321-4f68-b859-8c61fe3eb6dc) # Contact Copyright (c) 2016-2023 MoleculerJS [![@moleculerjs](https://img.shields.io/badge/github-moleculerjs-green.svg)](https://github.com/moleculerjs) [![@MoleculerJS](https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-MoleculerJS-blue.svg)](https://twitter.com/MoleculerJS) [patreon]: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=6245171

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