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Programmatic API

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

The create function allows that:

import { create } from '@platformatic/gateway'

const app = await create('path/to/platformatic.gateway.json')
await app.start()

const res = await fetch(app.url)
console.log(await res.json())

// do something

await app.close()

It is also possible to customize the configuration:

import { create } from '@platformatic/gateway'

const app = await create('/path/to', {
server: {
hostname: '127.0.0.1',
port: 0
},
gateway: {
applications: [
{
id: 'auth-service',
origin: 'https://auth-service.com',
openapi: {
url: '/documentation/json',
prefix: 'auth'
}
},
{
id: 'payment-service',
origin: 'https://payment-service.com',
openapi: {
file: './schemas/payment-service.json'
}
}
]
}
})

await app.start()

const res = await fetch(app.url)
console.log(await res.json())

// do something

await app.close()

Issues

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