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Example Consumer

Source Code​

https://github.com/pactflow/example-consumer

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Pact Status (latest pact)

Can I deploy Status

This is an example of a Node consumer using Pact to create a consumer driven contract, and sharing it via PactFlow.

It is using a public tenant on PactFlow, which you can access here using the credentials dXfltyFMgNOFZAxr8io9wJ37iUpY42M/O5AIZWxelWbLvqMd8PkAVycBJh2Psyg1. The latest version of the Example Consumer/Example Provider pact is published here.

The project uses a Makefile to simulate a very simple build pipeline with two stages - test and deploy.

  • Test
    • Run tests (including the pact tests that generate the contract)
    • Publish pacts, associating the consumer version with the name of the current branch
    • Check if we are safe to deploy to prod (ie. has the pact content been successfully verified)
  • Deploy (only from master)
    • Deploy app (just pretend for the purposes of this example!)
    • Record the deployment in the Pact Broker

Usage​

See the PactFlow CI/CD Workshop.

Running the application​

Start up the provider (or another compatible provider) API by running npm run start.

Open a separate terminal for the consumer.

Before starting the consumer, create a .env file in the root of the project and set the URL to point to your running provider:

REACT_APP_API_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080

Then run:

npm run start

Pre-requisites​

Software:

Environment variables​

To be able to run some of the commands locally, you will need to export the following environment variables into your shell:

Usage​

Pact use case​

  • make test - run the pact test locally
  • make fake_ci - run the CI process locally