A small test implementation for pub-sub with GCP
express — A lightweight Node.js web framework for spinning up RESTful APIs. We will use this to handle routing in our backend API nodemon — This package will help us automatically restart our development server when we make code changes/edits body-parser — A middleware to parse incoming request inputs into our req.body object morgan — HTTP request logger middleware for Node.js. This will help us debug our API while in development helmet — This is a collection of middlewares for which our express-based server by setting HTTP headers which conforms to best security practices cors — This package will help enable cross-origin resource sharing on our server dotenv — This package will enable us to have access to the environment defined in a .env file from our Node application via the process.env object google-cloud/pubsub — This is the Node.js client for Cloud Pub/Sub. We will be using this to publish messages and subscribe to topics defined in our pub/sub console