Cin7 API Client for NodeJS

A simple NodeJS package to make calls to the Cin7 API

Prerequisites

You will need to install NodeJS, which will come with npm. You must also sign up with Cin7 to get an CIN7_API_KEY. Your CIN7_API_KEY is the username and password separated by a colon. You will also need git installed.

UserName:Password

Installing

First install NodeJS for your platform and make sure to add it to the PATH. The installer should offer to do this for you. The same goes for git.

Then, clone this repository with git. The following examples use a bash terminal in Ubuntu/Linux. However, it should be very similar across platforms and command line interfaces.

git clone git@github.com:Wardevour/Cin7-api-node.git

Next, you'll want to install the required dependencies. Run the npm install command from within the repository, like so:

cd Cin7-api-node
npm install

To run the tests you'll need to set the CIN7_API_KEY with dotenv. To do this, you must make a .env file and define your CIN7_API_KEY inside. Here is an example in bash:

touch .env
echo "CIN7_API_KEY=UserName:Password" >> .env
npm test

NOTE: You should never set the CIN7_API_KEY like this in production. Your key could be logged from the terminal. Also, environment variables should be set with the system, not with dotenv. When deploying to production, you can disable dotenv by setting the environment variable NODE_ENV="production"

Authors

• Kenneth Brockert - Initial work - Wardevour

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• NodeJS
• node-fetch
• dotenv
• mocha
• chai