node-proxy

A simple proxy server in node with logging and cli

Getting started

• Install NodeJS if not already installed. See http://nodejs.org/
• Install babel-node : npm install -g babel
• Install nodemon: npm install -g nodemon
• Clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:niki4810/node-proxy.git
• run npm install

Starting your server

From the root directory of your project

1) Using babel

    $ babel-node index.js

2) using nodemon

   $ nodemon --exec babel-node -- index.js

3) using npm start

  $ npm start 

Features

Echo Service

• start the server using npm start
• from another terminal tab run curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -d "Hello Echo"
• you can also use verbose option using -v
• and pass in a header using -H

Basic proxy

• start the server using npm start
• from another terminal tab run curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8001 -d "Hello From Proxy" -H "x:asdf:Temp Proxy Header"

Passing x-destination-url in header

• start the server using npm start
• from another terminal tab run curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8001 -H "x-destination-url:http://www.google.com"

CLI

Passing url option

• start the server using (pass url arg) nodemon --exec babel-node -- index.js --url http://www.google.com

• from another terminal tab run curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8001

• you can also open a browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8001`, it should redirect you to google.com

Logging

Basic logging

• By default we log to process.stdout

Logging to a file

• start the server using nodemon --exec babel-node -- index.js --stream /tmp/node-proxy.log
• from another terminal tab run curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -d "Hello Echo"
• see the contents of log file via cat /tmp/node-proxy.log

Extra

1) Utilized chalk (https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk) to add colors to log statements

2) Adding documentation flags Temperoraly code checked into this branch chore-adding-documentation-to-args