feathers-hooks-utils

Utility library for writing Feathersjs hooks.

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A modified version of this repo has been moved into feathersjs/feathers-hooks-common/utils, and you should use that instead. However there are breaking differences.

Code Example

const utils = require('feathers-hooks-utils');

// Check we are running as a before hook performing an update or patch method.
exports.before = {
  create: [
    utils.checkContext(hook, 'before', ['update', 'patch']);
    ...
  ],
};

// Support conditional inclusion of hooks.
// Check user authentication with 1 line of code.
const populateOwnerId = false;

exports.before = {
  create: concatHooks([ // Flatten hooks
    utils.restrictToAuthenticated, // Ensure user is authenticated. Note its not a fcn call.
    populateOwnerId && hooks.associateCurrentUser({ as: 'ownerId' }), // Conditional inclusion
    hooks.associateCurrentUser({ as: 'createdById' }),
  ]),
};

/* Same result as
create: [
  auth.verifyToken(),
  auth.populateUser(),
  auth.restrictToAuthenticated()
  hooks.associateCurrentUser({ as: 'createdById' }),
]
*/

// Get hook data from `hook.data`, `hook.data.$set` or `hook.result` depending on the context.
exports.before: {
  patch: [
    (hook) => {
      const data = utils.get(hook); // from hook.data.$set
      ...
    },
  ],
};
exports.after: {
  update: [
    (hook) => {
      const data = utils.get(hook); // from hook.result
      ...
    },
  ],
};

// Set hook data in `hook.data`, `hook.data.$set` or `hook.result` depending on the context.
exports.before: {
  create: [
    (hook) => {
      ...
      utils.set(hook, 'age', 30); // into hook.data
    },
  ],
};
exports.after: {
  create: [
    (hook) => {
      ...
      utils.set(hook, 'readAt', new Date()); // into hook.result
    },
  ],
};

// Replace all hook data in `hook.data`, `hook.data.$set` or `hook.result` depending on the context.
// This might be used, for example, to replace the original hook data after it has been sanitized. 
exports.before: {
  create: [
    (hook) => {
      ...
      utils.setAll(hook, sanitizedData); // into hook.data
    },
  ],
};
exports.after: {
  create: [
    (hook) => {
      ...
      utils.set(hook, replacementData); // into hook.result
    },
  ],
};

Motivation

You will be writing hooks if you use Feathers.

This library delivers some of the common functions you want to perform, and its modularity should make your hooks easier to understand.

Installation

Install Nodejs.

Run npm install feathers-hooks-utils --save in your project folder.

You can then require the utilities.

// ES5
const utils = require('feathers-hooks-utils');
const checkContext = utils.checkContext;
// or ES6
import { checkContext } from 'feathers-hooks-utils';

You can require individual utilities if you want to reduce (a little bit of) code:

// ES5
const checkContext = require('feathers-hooks-utils/lib/checkContext');

/src on GitHub contains the ES6 source. It will run on Node 6+ without transpiling.

API Reference

Each utility is fully documented in its source file.

Tests

npm test to run tests.

npm run cover to run tests plus coverage.

Contributors

• eddyystop

License

MIT. See LICENSE.