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Simple, but not too simple: how using Zeit’s `micro` improves your Node applications

Hugo Di Francesco on October 22, 2018

Leave the Express comfort zone to expand how you think about Node application architecture. tl;dr using a function composition model for build...
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Les • • Edited

I love micro, it just makes building small apps a sinch. But then I'm a total Zeit fanboy.

If you're really want to functionify it. Where you apply your middlewares with micro you could compose with lambda or some other functional library.

const compose = require('some-functional-library/compose')

const applyMiddlwares = compose(
  health,
  log,
  cors,
  rateLimit,
)

module.exports = applyMiddlewares(handler)
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Hugo Di Francesco •

Yep, I mean compose is just a reduce away isn't it?

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