express-gateway/README.md

#### A Microservices API Gateway Built Using Express.js and Express Middleware
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Express Gateway is a microservices API gateway that sits at the heart of any microservices or serverless architecture, regardless of what language or platform you're using.

Express Gateway secures your microservices and serverless functions and expose them through APIs using Node.js, Express and Express middleware.

Developing cloud native applications, orchestrating and managing them now can be done insanely fast all on one seamless platform without having to introduce additional infrastructure.

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#### Main Features
- Microservices and Serverless QoS Proxy and Security
- Built Entirely on JavaScript/Node.js using Express and Express Middleware
- Dynamic Centralized Config
- API Consumer and Credentials Management
- Plugins and Plugin Framework
- Distributed Data Store
- CLI
- REST API
- Cloud Native Execution

#### Installation
If you have Node.js already installed:

```bash
# install Express Gateway
$ npm install -g express-gateway
```

#### Creating a Gateway

```bash
# create a new gateway using the CLI
$ eg gateway create
```

#### Get Help
Need help or have a question?
- [Express Gateway Documentation][eg-docs]
- [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)][eg-faq]

#### Commercial Support
Express Gateway is commercially supported by [LunchBadger][lb-url].  For more information about support plans please visit [the support page][eg-support].

#### Community
Express has a large vibrant community that we hope to extend further with Express Gateway's gateway use case for Express and its middleware.

- Come chat with us in [Gitter][gitter-room-url]
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#### Roadmap
The Express Gateway roadmap consists of three parts:
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### LTS Policy

  | Module Version   | Release Date | Minimum EOL | EOL With     | Status  |
  |------------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|---------|
  | 1.x.x 	         | Jul 2016	    | Dec 2019    | Node 8       | Current |

#### Contribution
All contributions welcome! Please see the [contributor's guide][contributor-guide]

#### Sponsors
Express Gateway is proudly sponsored by...
- [LunchBadger][lb-url] : Makes of Express Serverless Platform - a multi cloud platform to build microservices and serverless cloud native modern apps.
- [Joyent Triton][joyent-url] : The Next Generation of Cloud - Modern, Hybrid and Open

#### License

[Apache-2.0 License][apache-license]

Copyright © LunchBadger, Inc. and Express Gateway Contributors

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