Building microservices requires careful attention to detail in the area of configuration management. It will be much simpler for you to launch and maintain your services as a result of this ability to segregate configuration data from code. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to manage configuration data in Node.js microservices by using the nconf package.
Why Should You Use nconf?
There are several good reasons why you should consider using nconf as the configuration management tool for your Node.js microservices, including the following:
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Flexibility: nconf offers you the ability to load configuration data from a wide number of sources, including command-line arguments, environment variables, a configuration file, and default settings. Because of this, it is simple to modify the behaviour of your microservices in accordance with the environment they are running in
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Ease of use: nconf’s application programming interface (API) is quite straightforward,…
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