Local development

Codehooks supports local development to test before deployment. The CLI has a built in local server which lets you run your application locally to test and debug before deploying to the Codehooks cloud.

First you need to install the CLI.

npm install codehooks -g

Getting started with a local project

You don't need to create a project to start with, just create a directory with an index.js file and a package.json file to get started.

mkdir mytest
cd mytest
touch index.js
npm init --yes
npm install codehooks-js

Then open the index.js in you favorite code editor and enter the following JavaScript code.

import app from 'codehooks-js' // Standard JS lib for express style code

// Create a GET endpoint route
app.get('/hello', async (req, res) => {
  console.log("I run locally, cool!");
  res.json({"message": "Hello local world!"});
});

export default app.init(); // Bind functions to the serverless runtime

Start the local development server with the CLI command in your project directory. Default port is 3000.

coho localserver --port 3000

Codehooks listening on http://localhost:3000

tip

The application endpoint is now: http://localhost:3000/dev/hello.

Use Postman, Thunder or curl for testing.

Auto reload changes with nodemon

Using nodemon to automatically reload code changes (install: npm i nodemon -g)

nodemon -w . -x 'coho localserver --port 3000'

[nodemon] 2.0.18
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
[nodemon] starting `coho localserver --port 3000`
Codehooks listening on http://localhost:3000

Read more about the CLI command here