Microservices

A demonstration of how multiple services can communicate with each other using Specific's service reference syntax.

• Gateway - Public-facing service that aggregates data from internal services
• Users - Internal service that returns user data
• Products - Internal service that returns product data

Get started

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whichever agent you use:

Help me get started with Specific by following https://start.specific.dev, using the Microservices example

Claude CodeCursorCodexOther

Your agent installs the CLI, clones the example, runs it locally, and walks you through deploying.

Install the CLI and clone

curl -fsSL https://specific.dev/install.sh | sh

git clone https://github.com/specific-dev/examples.git
cd examples/node-microservices
npm install

Start the development server

specific dev

Open the gateway URL shown in the output to see aggregated data from the internal services.

Deploy to production

specific deploy