NextJS, Express and Now as Microservices with Yarn & Lerna Workspaces

This is a starter/example repo for creating websites with NextJS and API with Express on a monorepo, with yarn & lerna.

How to use

WEB (NextJS) will be running on http://localhost:3000 API (Express) will be running on http://localhost:3001 PROXY (Micro Proxy) will be running on http://localhost:9000

Web

The web will be available on it's own http://localhost:3000 and also will be mapped to be the default http://localhost:9000/. The source code it's on packages/web and it can be deployed by it self.

API

The api will be available on it's own http://localhost:3001 and also will be mapped to http://localhost:9000/api on the proxy server so you can consume it easily from the website, the source code it's on packages/api and it can be deployed by it self.

How to install

Clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/joecohens/next-express-monorepo-starter {project-name}

cd {project-name}

Copy the env files for each service.

cp packages/api/.env.example packages/api/.env
cp packages/web/.env.example packages/web/.env

Install dependencies only on the root thanks to yarn workspaces.

yarn install

Development

Run the dev server from the root project.

yarn dev

You can run each service individually.

yarn dev:web
yarn dev:api

For more info look a the package.json scripts.

Deploy

You can easily deploy each microservice using now and use alias paths to route exactly like micro-proxy, so you'll have the same production env.

I'll will add an example and scripts soon.