forte-lifecycle

Forte Lifecycle is expressjs middleware that provides lifecycle magic to your Forte experience apps.

Features

• Automatic Organization Resolver and Cache
  The first request processed will cause a forte-api call to be made that fills the organization cache. A request.organization prop will also be available for use in other areas of your express server.
• Automatic server.renderTime metric tracking
  All requests are timed and logged via node-statsd

Install

$ npm i -S forte-lifecycle

Documentation

• Quick Start
• API
  • Constructor
  • Request Properties

Quick Start

var express = require('express')
var forteApi = require('forte-api')
var lifecycle = require('forte-lifecycle')
 
var app = express()
 
var api = forteApi({...})
 
// register the middleware
// be sure to register the middleware before any routes that require trunk/branch scope info
app.use(lifecycle(api)) 
 
// now, all requests will have a request.lifecycle property
// and log server.renderTime using node-statsd
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('Hello ' + req.lifecycle.scope.trunk '!');
});
 
app.listen(3000, function () {  
  console.log('Forte Experience app listening on port 3000!');
})

API

Constructor

ForteLifecycle(apiClient, [options])

Creates an instance of the Forte Lifecycle middleware.

• apiClient:
  A forte-api client instance or an object that conforms to the following interface can also be supplied:
  • organizations.getOne(filter): {organization}
    Returns a promise that returns a single organization. filter is an object map of props to filter by e.x.: { hostname: '...'}.
  • organizations.getMany(filter): [{organization}, ...]
    Returns a promise that returns all organizations. filter is an object map of props to filter by e.x.: { parentID: '...'}.
• options:
  • cacheDuration:
    The duration in milliseconds or string in ms format to cache organizations lookups.
    default: '15m'
  • stats:
    An optional configuration object for node-statsd.
    default: node-statsd defaults see node-statsd usage

Request Properties

The lifecycle middleware adds the following properties to the request for use in subsequent middleware/handlers:

request.lifecycle.scope: {object}

• hostname: {string} The hostname of the request derived from request.headers.host.
• trunk: {string}
  The trunk organization ID for the request.
• branch: {string}
  The branch organization ID for the request.