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
• Socket Clients: TCP (telnet), TLS
• Web Socket Clients: HTTP, HTTPS

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

Quick Start

# mkdir new_project; cd new_project
npm install actionhero
./node_modules/.bin/actionhero generate
npm start

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

Or deploy a free API server now:

Want more?

• Getting Started
• Read the documentation
• Find community-based resources
• Interact with the Community & View the Release History
• Server Client

Sample Projects

• Simple
• Elaborate (Angular, Sequelize)
• Client Use: React
• Client Use: React Native

Documentation

• 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 documenation is also automatically deployed to https://docs.actionherojs.com.
• ActionHero's marketing site can be found @ https://github.com/actionhero/www.actionherojs.com/. If you want to contribute to this site, visit the related project

Who?

• The primary creator of the actionhero framework is Evan Tahler, but many others have helped
• If you want to contribute to actionhero, contribute to the conversation on github and join us on slack