Getting Started

About Moleculer

Moleculer is a fast, modern and powerful microservices framework for Node.js. It helps you to build efficient, reliable & scalable services. Moleculer provides many features for building and managing your microservices.

Features of Moleculer

Promise-based solution (async/await compatible)
request-reply concept
support streams
support event-driven architecture with balancing
built-in service registry & dynamic service discovery
load balanced requests & events (round-robin, random, cpu-usage, latency)
many fault tolerance features (Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Retry, Timeout, Fallback)
supports middlewares
supports versioned services
service mixins
built-in caching solution (memory, Redis)
pluggable transporters (TCP, NATS, MQTT, Redis, NATS Streaming, Kafka)
pluggable serializers (JSON, Avro, MsgPack, Protocol Buffers, Thrift)
pluggable validator
multiple services on a node/server
all nodes are equal, no master/leader node
parameter validation with fastest-validator
built-in health monitoring & metrics
official API gateway module and many other modules…

This boilerplate make it easier to get started with a well-structured Moleculer Microservice.

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