Gearshaft

An Event Sourcing toolkit for Node.js based on the Eventide project for Ruby.

Status: Pre-Release (due to lack of documentation, see Roadmap)

Getting Started

The best way to get started is to dive into the Gearshaft example project.

Development

1. Run a Postgres instance for use by the automated tests
2. Provision a message store database for the automated tests
3. Configure the test suite to use the appropriate Postgres credentials
4. Run the tests

Running Postgres

Use Docker to run Postgres or install Postgres from scratch. The automated tests expect the following defaults which can be overriden:

• HOST: localhost
• PORT: 5432 (Postgres default)
• USER: postgres
• PASS: NInAN5t3kJo8d7I3

You can run Postgres with docker as follows:

docker run --name pg -d -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=NInAN5t3kJo8d7I3 postgres:12

Terminate Postgres and delete all data as follow:

docker rm -fv pg

Provisioning Message Store Database

1. Install the Postgres client (psql)

   Ubuntu: sudo apt install postgresql-client Mac: brew install libpq && brew link --force libpq

2. (Re)create the message store database and user credentials

   If you are using the default (compromised) credentials, simply run: npm run recreate; otherwise, customize the following commands as necessary:

   1. Create the message_store database:

      PGHOST=localhost \
        PGUSER=postgres \
        PGPASSWORD=NInAN5t3kJo8d7I3 \
        ./gems/bin/evt-pg-recreate-db
      

   2. Assign the message_store user a password:

      PGHOST=localhost \
        PGUSER=postgres \
        PGPASSWORD=NInAN5t3kJo8d7I3 \
        psql -c "alter role message_store with password 'NInAN5t3kJo8d7I3';"
      

Configuring Test Suite Postgres Credentials

The Test Suite configuration is managed using the rc module. Create a .gearshaft_testsrc file in the project root directory with the following fields to customize the Postgres connection settings:

{
  "db": {
    "host": "some-host-name",
    "user": "some-pg-user",
    "password": "some-pg-pass",
    "database": "some-pg-database"
  }
}

What's with the name?

The project is named after the concept of a physical gearshaft: a machine engineered to precisely actuate components.

Acknowledgements

Gearshaft builds on the hard-fought design learnings of the Eventide's Ruby implemention. The module boundaries and many test-cases have Eventide equivalents making the Eventide Documentation a great resource for getting started. Gearshaft relies on the Message DB for Postgres schema and functions.