Coming soon: Features and practices
WIP - This doc is being written these days
This list will outline all the capabilities and roadmap of Practica.js
Here will come a filter panel to search by categories, what's strategic, and more
1. Logger
1.1 Logger Library
What: A reputable and hardened logger
Tags: #strategic #logger
👷🏾 Status: 
Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: Pino.js (Decision log here)
🎁 Bundles: example-flow, full-flow
🏁 CLI flags: --logger=true|false
1.2 Prevent infinite logger serialization loop
What: Limit logged JSON depth when cyclic reference is introduced
Tags: #logger
👷🏾 Status: 
Idea, not implemented
🏆 Chosen libraries: Pino.js (Decision log here)
🎁 Bundles: example-flow, full-flow
🏁 CLI flags: None, always true
2. Configuration
2.1 Configuration retriever module
What: A configuration retriever module that packs good practices
Tags: #strategic #configuration
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: Convict (Decision log here)
🎁 Bundles: example-flow, full-flow
🏁 CLI flags: -
3. Testing experience
3.1 Slow tests detection
What: Slow tests automatically shown clearly in the console and exported to a json report
Tags: #dx #testing
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: jest-performance-reporter
🎁 Bundles: example-flow, full-flow
3.2 Autocomplete
What: When running tests in watch mode and choosing filename or test name patterns autocomplete will assist you
Tags: #dx #testing
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: jest-watch-typeahead
4. Docker
4.1 Secured dockerfile
What: We build a production-ready .dockerfile that avoids leaking secrets and leaving dev dependencies in
Tags: #security #docker
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: N/A
4.1 Layered build
What: The poduction artifact omit building tools to stay more compact and minimize attack sutface
Tags: #security #docker
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: N/A
4.2 Compact base image
What: A small, ~100MB, base image of Node is used
Tags: #docker
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: N/A
4.2 Testing docker-compose
What: Testing optimized database and other infrastrucuture running from docker-compose during the automated tests
Tags: #testing #docker #database
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: N/A
Additional 100 features will come here
5. Database
5.1 Sequelize ORM
What: Support for one of the most popular and matured ORM - Sequelize
Tags: #orm #db
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: Sequelize
5.2 Prisma ORM
What: Support for one of an emerging and type safe ORM - Prisma
Tags: #orm #db
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: Prisma
5.3 Migration
What: Includes migration files and commands for production-safe updates
Tags: #orm #db
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: Prisma
6. Request-level store
6.1 Automatic correlation-id
What: Automatically emit unique correlation id to every log line
Tags: #log #tracing
👷🏾 Status: Production-ready, more hardening is welcome
🏆 Chosen libraries: N/A