A tiny module to read config parameters for your node application. It's avaiable through npm:
npm install param
Param exposes a single function that finds a config parameter
// example.js
var param = require('param');
var port = param('app.port');
console.log(port);The above example tells param to find the parameter app.port.
It does so by first looking at the command line arguments
node example.js --app.port 8080 # prints 8080
If present param will simply return that value.
Otherwise param will look for a configuration file specified by --config [filename] or your NODE_ENV env var.
If NODE_ENV=development it will look for a config file called config/development.json or config/development.js.
It will start looking for the config file in . If it doesn't exist it will try in .. until it reaches /.
{
"app": {
"port": 8888
},
"certificate": "{./certificate.file}",
"apikey": "{$API_KEY}"
}{$API_KEY} reads API_KEY from the environment. Equivalent to process.env.API_KEY.
{./certificate.file} reads the file called certificate.file.
Running the example again with the above file saved as config/development.json
node example.js # prints 8888
Happy configuring!
MIT