Platformatic v0.14.0 - buildServer API, fastify-user, and more

UpdatedFebruary 23, 2023

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Platformatic v0.14.0 - buildServer API, fastify-user, and more

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Start Platformatic Service & DB programmatically

In many cases, it's helpful to start Platformatic DB using an API instead of command line, e.g. in tests, we want to start and stop our server.

The buildServer function allows that:

import { buildServer } from '@platformatic/db' const db = await buildServer('path/to/platformatic.db.json') // // Or use a custom configuration // // const db = await buildServer({ // server: { // hostname: '127.0.0.1', // port: 0 // }, // core: { // // Use an in-memory database for testing purposes // connectionString: 'sqlite://./db.sqlite' // }, // dashboard: true, // authorization: { // adminSecret: 'secret' // } // }) await db.listen() const res = await fetch(server.url) console.log(await res.json()) // do something await db.stop()

This was implemented in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/630

fastify-user module

In this release, we extracted the fastify-user module from @platformatic/db-authorization. fastify-user provides a Fastify plugin to populate the request.user property from a JWT token (custom claims) or a webhook (response body).

To use it, invoke the extractUser method on the request object, or add this hook:

const app = fastify() app.register(fastifyUser, { jwt: { secret: <my-shared-secret> } // // or // webhook: { // url: `http://my-webhook-url/authorize` // } }) app.addHook('preHandler', async (request, reply) => { await request.extractUser() })

This module was developed by @marcopiraccini and extracted in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/612.

Command Line Interface

We did plenty of improvements to our command line interface, check them out:

create-platformatic: add ctags and clinic to gitignore by @RafaelGSS in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/611

fix(db): db seed should try all known config file names by default by @btisdall in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/603

fix version check on create platformatic by @malforsaja in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/624

feat: throw an error on seed command if there are migrations to apply by @ivan-tymoshenko in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/626

fix: hide call stack on migration errors by @ivan-tymoshenko in https://github.com/platformatic/platformatic/pull/625

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