By Hesamsrk

A fully functional, configurable yet simple reverse-proxy which you can use it to manage and secure your existing applications.

This application uses Express , typescript , JWT , MYSQL, Sequelize-typescript and http-proxy

You can change the services.config.ts file to add new services or configure existing ones.

• Using this config file you can register as many as applications you want the reverse proxy connect to:

import {ServiceConfigs} from "./src/types/service";

export const services: ServiceConfigs[] = [
    {
        name: "httpbin",
        hostname: "httpbin.org",
        protocol: "http",
    },
    {
        name: "myApplication",
        hostname: "localhost:3000",
        protocol: "http",
    },
];

• As default, the only connected service is httpbin

• This application is dockerized for ease of use, so you need to install docker and docker-compose to run this program.
• After running docker and docker-compose simply run:

docker run -d --rm --name mydatabase -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=13731378 -e MYSQL_DATABASE=reverseProxy -p 4040:3306  mysql

docker build -t reverse-proxy .

docker run -d --rm --name reverse-proxy-app -p 6969:6969 reverse-proxy

I had an issue when running the app using docker-compose, but you can also try running everything with that:

# for linux and mac
sudo docker-compose up

# OR

# for windows
docker-compose up

If you don't want to use docker to run this application for any reason you can still run it on your local machine:

• Install nodejs.
• Install mysql.
• Configure environment-variables: .env

  PORT=6969
  JWT_SECRET=avadakdora
  JWT_REFRESH_SECRET=vingardiumleviousa
  DATABASE_HOST=mydatabase
  DATABASE_PORT=3306
  DATABASE_USERNAME=root
  DATABASE_PASSWORD=13731378
  DATABASE_NAME=reverseProxy
  ORIGINS=localhost:3000
  APP_NAME=reverseProxyApp
  

• Run these commands in the project root:

npm install
npm run syncdb
npm start

• First import the api-document.yaml file to insomnia or postman .
• There you can see the API end-points:
  • Signup:
  • Login:
  • Send request, and the reverse-proxy connects you to the target servers:
    • JSON:
    • HTML: ``