Practical Microservices

Hooking the Admin Portal into the Rest of the System

We start with our standard config.js work, and then we’ll deal with Express:

debugging-components/src/config.js

// ...
const createAdminApp = require('./app/admin')
function createConfig ({ env }) {
  // ...
  const adminApp = createAdminApp({
    db: knexClient,
    messageStoreDb: postgresClient
  })
  return {
    // ...
    adminApp,
  }
}

Require. Instantiate. Return. Sounds like the makings of a political candidate’s slogan. Notice the Admin Portal takes a reference to the Message Store’s database connection. We’ll do some queries against the Message Store directly.

Let’s mount it in Express:

debugging-components/src/app/express/mount-routes.js

function mountRoutes (app, ...