Create a Basic Node.js Application with Express Generator

You can use the application generator tool Node.js Express generator to quickly create a Node.js application skeleton.

Before that, create a new directory for your project:

mkdir multitenancy-kyma-tutorial

Under the multitenancy-kyma-tutorial directory, create your own Node.js Application.

Option 1: Run the application generator to create application skeleton with single one npx command (available in Node.js 8.2.0):

npx express-generator --view=jade kyma-multitenant-node

Option 2: Run the application generator to create application skeleton with command npm and express, by this way, packages will be saved locally as well.

Install the tool:

npm install -g express-generator

Package express is installed together.

Verify if you have successfully installed the tool:

express --version

Create an application skeleton:

express --view=jade kyma-multitenant-node

The generated app has the following directory structure:

.
├── app.js
├── bin
│   └── www
├── package.json
├── public
│   ├── images
│   ├── javascripts
│   └── stylesheets
│       └── style.css
├── routes
│   ├── index.js
│   └── users.js
└── views
    ├── error.jade
    ├── index.jade
    └── layout.jade

7 directories, 9 files

Routing refers to determining how an application responds to a client request to a particular endpoint, which is a URI (or path) and a specific HTTP request method (GET, POST, and so on).

Each route can have one or more handler functions, which are executed when the route is matched.

Route definition takes the following structure:

app.METHOD(PATH, HANDLER)

Where:

• app is an instance of express.
• METHOD is an HTTP request method, in lowercase.
• PATH is a path on the server.
• HANDLER is the function executed when the route is matched.

Add basic logic into the default get endpoint. To make the necessary changes you should navigate to kyma-multitenant-node/routes/index.js and add the logic with the following code snippets:

/**
 * This is the default end-point when someone attempts to access the SaaS application.
 * We show a message to the logged in user.
 * Format of the message: Hello <logon name>; your tenant subdomain is <consumer sub-domain>; your tenant zone id is <consumer tenant id>
 * The logon name will be specific to each user.
 * The tenant zone and sub domain will be the same for all users of one consumer(tenant).
 * Otherwise, if there is no AuthInfo object found, We show the message "Hello World" to users.
 */
router.get("/", function(req, res, next) {
    try {
        var line1 = "Hello " + req.authInfo.getLogonName();
        var line2 = "your tenant sub-domain is " + req.authInfo.getSubdomain();
        var line3 = "your tenant zone id is " + req.authInfo.getZoneId();
        var responseMsg = line1 + "; " + line2 + "; " + line3;
        res.send(responseMsg);
    } catch (e) {
        console.log("AuthInfo object undefined.");
        var responseMsg = "Hello World!";
        res.send(responseMsg);
    }
});

For more details on how to develop Express web application, please visit the official website: Express

You can find the final Node.js project from here.