Actionhero

The reusable, scalable, and quick node.js API server for stateless and stateful applications

Who is the Actionhero?

Actionhero is a multi-transport API Server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks. The goal of actionhero is to create an easy-to-use toolkit for making reusable & scalable APIs for HTTP, WebSockets, and more. Clients connected to an actionhero server can consume the api, consume static content, and communicate with each other. Actionhero is cluster-ready, with built in support for background tasks, 0-downtime deploys, and more. Actionhero provides a simple Async/Await API for managing every type of connection and background task.

Currently actionhero supports the following out of the box...

• Web Clients: HTTP, HTTPS
• Web Socket Clients: HTTP, HTTPS

... and you can also make your own servers and transports.

Quick Start

# Generate a new Project
npx actionhero generate
npm install
npm run build
npm run dev # <-- I automatically notice changes and restart, as well as compiling .ts files

# Use the actionhero CLI
(npx) actionhero generate action --name my_action
(npx) actionhero generate task --name my_task --queue default --frequency 0

# Test
npm test

# To deploy your app
npm run build
npm run start

Your new project will come with example actions, tests, and more.

Or deploy a free API server now:

Learn More 📚

• Getting Started @ www.actionherojs.com
  • Actionhero's website can be found @ https://github.com/actionhero/www.actionherojs.com/. If you want to contribute to this site, visit the related project
  • ---> Start with the Tutorials <---
• Read the typedoc documentation @ docs.actionherojs.com
  • Starting with Actionhero version 18, the documentation for each version is included in this repository (and the NPM package) in the /docs folder. The current version of this documentation is also automatically deployed to https://docs.actionherojs.com.
• Find community-based resources
• Interact with the Community & View the Release History
• Server Client

In-depth Tutorials 🎓

Core Components

• Actions
• Tasks
• Middleware
• Initializers
• CLI Commands
• Configuration
• Cluster
• Chat & Realtime Communication
• File Server
• Logging
• Plugins
• Servers
• Localization & Translation

Server Types

• Web Server & Routes
• WebSocket Server

Testing, Deployment, and Operations

• Running Actionhero
• Development Mode & REPL
• Testing & SpecHelper
• Production Notes
• Upgrade Path

Sample Projects

• Simple
• Elaborate (React, Next.JS, Bootstrap, Sequelize)
• Client Use: React
• Client Use: React Native

Who?

• Many folks have helped to make Actionhero a reality.
• If you want to contribute to actionhero, contribute to the conversation on github and join us on slack

Contributing

• Contributing to Actionhero is easy! You can learn more about contributing to Actionhero here
• By engaging the with Actionhero community or contributing to this or related projects, you agree to our Code of Conduct

License

Apache 2.0

Dedication

Technology is a powerful force in our society. Data, software, and communication can be used for bad: to entrench unfair power structures, to undermine human rights, and to protect vested interests. But they can also be used for good: to make underrepresented people’s voices heard, to create opportunities for everyone, and to avert disasters. This project is dedicated to everyone working toward the good.

Inspired by Martin Kleppmann