Micro-Start — Start micro or micro-dev programmaticly

Installation

npm install --save micro-start

Usage

Create an index.js file and a micro.js file

// index.js
const start = require("micro-start");

// start micro
start("./micro");

// start micro-dev
start("./micro", isDevelopment = process.env.NODE_ENV === "development")

// control callback for production
start("./micro", { callback: server => {
    const { address, port } = server.address();
    //log that the server has started
  }
})

// micro.js
module.exports = (req, res) => {
  res.end('Welcome to Micro')
}

An example using the NODE_ENV environment variable add a start and dev script:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "NODE_ENV=production node index.js",
    "dev": "NODE_ENV=development node index.js",
  }
}

A production server can be started like this:

npm start

A development server can be started like this:

npm run dev

Options

start(file, { isDevelopment = false, host = "::", port = 3000, callback })

• file is a String. Required - is a relative path to your micro handler.
• config is an Object
  • isDevelopment is a Boolean. Default is false.
  • host is a String. Default is IPV6 "::" or IPV4 "0.0.0.0"
  • port is a Number. Default is 3000. In development mode, if port 3000 is taken micro-dev will choose an open port.
  • callback is a Function. It has one parameter - a server object https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_class_net_server