server.md

Watchtower Express server

Watchtower can create your express server, it has a number of services provided.

The api is

export const startServer = () => {
    return createServer(options?: {
        /** Early middleware hook is before static middleswares etc */
        earlyMiddlewareHook?: (app: express.Express) => void,
        middlewareHook?: (app: express.Express) => void,
        callback?: () => void,
        startListening?: boolean,
    })
}

Services

Logging

Watchtower will ensure there is a .log property on your express request. It will be done before any middleware hooks so you can overwrite it at any time.

Ensure that the log provided conforms to the Logger interface in watchtower. It is compatible with bunyan, winston etc so most loggers should be fine.