Awesome ActionHero.js

The Reusable, Scalable, and Quick node.js API Server!

A curated list of amazingly awesome ActionHero.js 14.0.0+ plugins, resources and shiny things.

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Table of Contents

• Plugins
  • API Features
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Miscellaneous
  • Integrations
  • ORM and Datamapping
  • Security
• Examples
  • Demo
• Resources
  • Books and Articles
  • Videos
  • Tutorials
  • Reading and Listening
  • Internals Reading
  • Help
• Conferences
• Contributing

Plugins

One tiny note when installing plugins, remember to link them to your projects to enable them - use the following command npm run actionhero link -- --name PLUGINNAME.

API Features

Plugins enhancing API control and other features.

• ah-ratelimit-plugin - Limit the amount of action requests.
• ah-swagger-plugin Swagger UI Documentation

Authentication and Authorization

Plugins for implementing authentication and authorization.

• ah-jwtauth2-plugin - This useful plugin is using Auth0 jsonwebtoken to allow token authentication of actions.
• ah-passport-plugin - Passport plugin for ActionHero.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins for ActionHero.

• ah-stats-plugin - collection of methods that allow you to store arbitrary statistics about your server.

Integrations

Third party node.js modules as plugins.

• ah-airbrake-plugin - ActionHero client for airbrakeapp.com, capture and track your apps exceptions.
• ah-newrelic-plugin - ActionHero client for newrelic.com, pinpoint your apps performance issues.
• ah-nodemailer-plugin - send emails using nodemailer in ActionHero, has integrated mail template capability.

ORM and Datamapping

Plugins that implement object-relational mapping or data-mapping techniques.

• ah-sequelize-plugin - This plugin implements sequelize ORM for ActionHero!
• ah-elasticsearch-orm - Elasticsearch for ActionHero!
• ah-mongodb-plugin MongoDB + Mongoose
• ah-rethinkdb-plugin RethinkDB + Mongoose

Examples

Demo

Code example (demo) applications and tools.

• Angular+ActionHero - ActionHero + Angular + Bootstrap + CORS + CSRF Demo Site
• EarlyAgain - Anonymous chat application.
• Electron ActionHero - Bundle ActionHero inside an Electron app.

Resources

Books and Articles

Fantastic ActionHero-related (e)books and other reading material.

• Learn more about ActionHero - Official learn more guide!

Videos

Fantastic ActionHero-related videos.

• Mark Tuckers ActionHero.js Series - Tutorial videos to get you started by Mark Tucker.

Tutorials

Must-do tutorials.

• Official tutorial - This tutorial will guide you through the basics of ActionHero.js!

Reading and Listening

Documentation and ActionHero-releated reading and listening materials.

• Official blog - The one who started it all! Evan Tahler has a blog right there.

Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the ActionHero internals and decisions.

• Support for Nested Plugins - Discussion for a nested plugins support.

Help

Where to get help.

• Slack Chat - Live chat/discussion with other devs and core devs.
• stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/actionhero - This is for specific questions, ideally along with some example code.

Conferences

None so far. Help us arrange one.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.