Nile JsFeatures
Features
Validate actions, apply access policies and add the services your application needs
Choose the feature your next operation needs. For a complete workflow, start with the examples.
| Feature | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Validation and errors | Reject bad input with Zod and return expected failures as Results |
| Authentication and hooks | Protect actions with JWT, enforce roles and run checks before or after an action |
| Context and logging | Read shared resources, the current session and execution details, and write structured logs |
| Queues, debounce and throttle | Limit concurrency, collapse repeated calls and cap how often work runs |
| Telemetry | Send traces and metrics for actions to an OpenTelemetry collector |
| WebSockets | Publish typed topic messages to subscribers that pass your access policy |
| Cron jobs | Run recurring business work on calendar, interval or one-time schedules |
| Database models | Create, read, update and delete rows through typed model helpers |
| API discovery and schemas | Let trusted tools list services and read action input schemas |
| HTTP, WebSocket and direct calls | Call the same action from HTTP, a socket client or your own backend code |
| Retries and utilities | Retry external calls with jitter, store values briefly and wrap database failures |
| Rate limiting | Bound how often a client can call an action or an HTTP route |
| File uploads | Accept multipart files with size, count and type limits |
| Readiness and shutdown | Report readiness to a platform and stop new work before the process exits |