The Littlefork HTTP.

Wrap littlefork around a HTTP API.

Installation

git clone [email protected]:littlefork/littlefork-api.git
cd littlefork-api
npm install

The littlefork API is configured using environment variables. It's possible to configure options in a local file, .env. This file will not be added to the git repository, an entry in the .gitignore prevents that.

cp .env.example
cat .env  // Edit as necessary

• LF_API_PORT :: The port to listen on. Defaults to 6667.
• LF_API_DATA_DIR :: The path to the storage directory. Defaults to ./data.
• LF_API_KEY :: The api key that should be sent in a header to auth the request

Usage

To simply run the API, start the server: npm run server. This starts a server on the port defined in the environment as LF_API_PORT.

There are local targets to run the linting, documentation building and unit testing. Simply start a development setup: npm run dev.

The package exports the server as a binary. Add littlefork-http as a dependency and run the server:

$(npm bin)/littlefork-http

Documentation

To build the latest version of this readme run: npm run docs:api. This rebuilds this readme file.

The HTTP routes are documented as well. To build them run: npm run docs:rest. This will build HTML documentation for the HTTP routes. They can be found in docs/rest.

firefox docs/rest/index.html

To build all docs, run: npm run docs.

Development

All functions are curried:

read('path/to/dir', 'project'); // =
read('path/to/dir')('project');

curl test: curl -v -H "apikey: haha" http://localhost:8666/projects

fs-db

read

Read a file and return it as parsed JSON.

read :: String -> String -> Future Json

Parameters

• p String The path of the node.
• f String The name of the file.

Returns Promise<Object> The parsed JSON that was read from the file.

init

Initialize a node.

init :: String -> Future ()

Parameters

• p String The path of the node.

Returns Promise<Null> Returns Unit, pure side effect.

write

Write data into a node. Initialize the node recursively if it doesn't exist.

write :: String -> String -> {} -> Future ()

Parameters

• p String The path of the node.
• f String The name of the file.
• d Object The data to store.

Returns Promise<Null> Returns Unit, pure side effect.

readNode

Read a node for all data and sub nodes.

readNode :: String -> Future [[Object], [String]]

const [fs, ds] = readNode('data/projects');
// fs => [{...}, {...}]
// ds = ['other', 'nodes']

Parameters

• p String The path of the node.

Returns Promise<Array<Array<Object>, Array<String>>> Returns an array tuple with the first element being a list of data units, and the second element a list of sub nodes.

list

List the data in a node.

list :: String -> Future [Object]

Parameters

• p String The path of the node.

Returns Promise<Array<Object>> A list of data units.