Als-settings

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• Als-settings
  • About
    • new in 0.4.0
    • new in 0.3.1
    • new in 0.3.1
    • new in 0.3
    • new in 0.2
  • Basic usage
    • Example
  • global.sqlite usage

About

Add dynamic settings to your project which saved in sqlite db and available for update.

new in 0.4.0

• dependency als-sqlite update to 0.5
• get method fixed
• global.sqlite = {Model}

new in 0.3.1

• als-sqlite for saving updated to new version

new in 0.3.1

• save and get bollean type

new in 0.3

• not available as middleware
• settings data has to be function that getting curent settings state
• Now available process.get and process.set
• Unset by key set(key)
• Create new key set(key,value) - if not exsists, creating new setting

new in 0.2

• save json data

Basic usage

Syntax for initialization:

let getSettings = require('als-settings')
getSettings(settingsFn:function,restore:Boolean)

Parameters:

• settingsFn - is a function which get curent settings state and has to return new settings state as object
  • object can include objects and arrays
• restore - if true, restore settings with new state

After initialization, you can use the folowing:

process.settings.keyForSetting // getting setting by key
process.settings.get(key) // deliting setting by key
process.settings.set(key,value) // adding new setting or updating existing

Example

let express = require('express')
let app = express()

let getSettings = require('als-settings')
let dev = true

//restore false by default
getSettings(function(settings) {
   let secret = settings.secret ? settings.secret : require('crypto').randomBytes(64).toString('hex')
   return {
      site_name:'test',
      roles: ['dev','admin','editor','user','subscriber','commentor'],
      secret,
   }
},dev)

app.get('/set/:site_name',(req,res) => {
   req.settings.set('site_name',req.params.site_name) // setting new value to key and update process.settings
})
app.get('/use',(req,res) => {
   // getting value
   return res.end(`<div>${process.settings.site_name}</div>`)
})
app.get('/refresh',(req,res) => {
   req.settings.get('key','value') // updating process.settings from db
   return res.end('done')
})

app.listen(3000)

global.sqlite usage

You can use sqlite db with als-sqlite which available as global.sqlite.Model. The Model allready connected to db and has all existing models inside global.sqlite.Model.models.

Read more in https://www.npmjs.com/package/als-sqlite