sackets
v1.0.0
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(Typescript) well tested, easy to use and highly extendable ActiveRecord library for browser and node js with code generation
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sackets
sackets
is an easy to use and highly extendable typed mongo db like query based TypeScript ActiveRecord library for browser and node js with code generation
Quick Start
- Install with npm
npm install sackets --save
- Create a
models.js
(ormodels.json
if you prefer json) file for meta information of your models similar to the following
module.exports = {
"Item": {
"id": "number", // required
"name": "string",
"price": "number",
"category": "Category", // belongs to
"toString": "name" // string representation of Item object
},
"Category": {
"id": "number",
"name": "string",
"items": "ItemCollection", // has many
"toString": "name"
}
};
- Create a
modelsgen.js
file in your project with the following content
var generator = require('sackets/generator');
var models = require('./models'); // get the model meta created above
var path = require('path');
generator.generate({
models: models,
path: path.resolve(__dirname + '/app/models'), // the path where code will be generated.
});
- Run modelsgen script with node
node modelsgen.js
- Files will be generated as following
- app
- models
- base
- Category.ts // Generated every time overwriting the existing. Contains generated code based on the meta information
- Item.ts
- index.ts
- Category.ts // Generated first time only, if not exists. Contains your custom code
- CategoryCollection.ts
- Item.ts
- ItemCollection.ts
- index.ts // barrel file exporting all the models
- Place your custom code in
app/models/Item.ts
for single item queries or inapp/models/ItemCollection.ts
for item collection queries
// app/models/ItemCollection.ts
import {ItemCollection as ItemCollectionBase} from './base/index';
import {Category} from './Category';
export class ItemCollection extends ItemCollectionBase {
findExpensiveByCategory(category: Category){
return this.find({
categoryId: category.id,
price: {$gt: 100},
$sort: {price: -1}
}); // typed query filter
}
}
- Use the code in your components or services
import {Item, Category} from 'app/models/index';
class MyComponent {
category = Category.model({id: 20});
items = Item.collection();
constructor(){
this.items.findExpensiveByCategory(category).then(()=> {
// now `this.items` collection has expensive items
console.log(this.items);
}).catch((err: any)=> {
console.log(err);
});
}
}
Note:
Unlike other frameworks, sackets self-fills the object(s) which makes it a perfect data handling library for data binding frameworks like Angular.
<ul>
<li *ngFor="let item of items">
{{ item.name }} {{ item.price }}
</li>
</ul>