Confige

Smart configuration control

Install

npm i confige

Basic Usage

This package by default read the config folder in your working directory:

• config
  • app.json
  • database.json
  • language.json

const config = require("confige");
console.log(config.app.name);
console.log(config.database.mysql.host);
console.log(config.language.supported[0]);

If folder config does not exist, file config.json will be checked instead.

• config.json

{
  "app": {
    "name": "MY APP"
  }
}

const config = require("confige");
console.log(config.app.name);

You can override the config file path with an environment variable:

// read a folder
process.env.CONFIG_FILE=src/config
// read a file
process.env.CONFIG_FILE=src/config.json
// with absolute path
process.env.CONFIG_FILE=/path/to/src/config.json

If you specified a single file, the config object will be the file itself rather than a nested object with the filename as its key(like folder reading does).

src/config.json

{
  "app": {
    "name": "myapp"
  }
}

process.env.CONFIG_FILE = src / config.json;
const config = require("confige");
console.log(config.app.name);

It won't be loaded again once done. To reload configs, you need to call:

// delete cached config
config.__.desolve();
// reload
config = require("confige");

Env File

By default, This package read a .env file in your working directory and get environment variables from this file.

NODE_ENV=production
CONFIG_FILE=src/config.json

You may override this behaviour by passing the following environment variable:

process.env.ENV_FILE=src/.env
const config = require('confige');

You may optionally set ENV_INJECT to inject env file variables into process.env.

Existing environment variables won't be overrided.

process.env.ENV_INJECT=true
NODE_ENV=development npm start

# NODE_ENV won't be set because it already exists
NODE_ENV=production
CONFIG_FILE=src/config.json

Smart Config File

A bunch of keywords can be used in config files

{
  "name": {
    "$env": "APP_NAME"
  },
  "database": {
    "port": {
      "$env": ["DB_PORT", 3306]
    },
    "host": {
      "$env": ["DB_HOST", "localhost"]
    },
    "username": {
      "$env": "DB_USER"
    },
    "password": {
      "$env": ["DB_PASS", { "$env": "DB_USER" }]
    }
  }
}

The $env object reads environment varaibles with an optional fallback value. With the following env set:

APP_NAME=myapp
DB_HOST=10.10.10.100
DB_USER=admin

The loaded config will be

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "database": {
    "port": 3306,
    "host": "10.10.10.100",
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
  }
}

Here is a list of available keywords:

$env

Get value from environment variables(first try env file, then process.env) with an optional fallback value

• params: string|[string, any]
• returns any

$path

Resolve the path to absolute from current working directory

• params: string
• returns string

$file

Resolve the path and read the file with an optional encoding

• params: string|[string, string]
• returns string|Buffer

$json

Parse the given string into object

• params: string
• returns any

$number

Parse the given string into a number

• params: string
• returns number

$concat

Concat strings or arrays

• params: string[]|[][]
• returns string|any[]

$max

Return the max number in the array

• params: number[]
• returns number

$min

Return the min number in the array

• params: number[]
• returns number

$sum

Sum the numbers in the array

• params: number[]
• returns number

$avg

Return the average value of the array

• params: number[]
• returns number

$first

Return the first element in the array

• params: any[]
• returns any

$last

Return the last element in the array

• params: any[]
• returns any

$at

Return element in the array at the given index

• params: [any[], number]
• returns any

$asce

Sort the numbers in ascending order

• params: number[]
• returns number[]

$asce

Sort the numbers in descending order

• params: number[]
• returns number[]

$rand

Return an element at random index

• params: any[]
• returns any

$rands

Return the given amount of elements at random indices

• params: [any[], number]
• returns any[]

$reverse

Reverse an array

• params: any[]
• returns any[]

$slice

Slice an array from the given index to an optional end index

• params: [any[], number]|[any[], number, number]
• returns any[]

$count

Return the length of an array

• params: any[]
• returns number

$merge

Return the merge of two objects

• params: [any, any]
• returns any

$keys

Return the keys of an object

• params: any
• returns string[]

$vals

Return the values of an object

• params: any
• returns any[]

$zip

Merge a series of key-value pairs into an object

• params: [any, any][]
• returns any

$zap

Split an object into key-value pairs

• params: any
• returns [any, any][]

$cond

Return the second or third element based on the boolean value of the first element

• params: [boolean, any, any]
• returns any

$and

Return true only if both two elements' boolean values are true

• params: [boolean, boolean]
• returns boolean

$or

Return true if any of the two elements' boolean value is true

• params: [boolean, boolean]
• returns boolean

$not

Return true only if the given value is false

• params: boolean
• returns boolean

$true

Return true if the given value is true or 'true'(case insensitive) or 1 or '1'

• params: boolean|string
• returns boolean

$null

Return true if the given value is null or undefined

• params: any
• returns boolean

$undefined

Return true only if the given value is undefined

• params: any
• returns boolean

$type

Return true only if the given value is of the given type

• params: [any, string]
• returns boolean

$test

Return boolean test result(!!) of the given value

• params: [any, string]
• returns boolean

Other Keywords

Operators

$abs, $add(+), $sub(-), $mul(*), $div(/), $mod(%), $ceil, $floor, $round, $trunc, $sign

Comparers

$gt(>), $gte(>=), $lt(<), $lte(<=), $eq(===), $eqv(==), $ne(!==), $nev(!=), $in, $ni

String Morph

$upper, $lower, $snake, $pascal, $camel, $dash, $plural, $singular

Utils

A utils is attached to each config instance. You can acces it by the getter __:

// make a deep cloned copy
const copy = config.__.clone(obj);

// merge target object's copy into source object's copy deeply
const merged = config.__.merge(source, target);

// load environment variables, optionally inject them into process.env
const envs = config.__.env("./.env", true);

// parse config by json string
let conf = config.__.resolve(
  JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./config.json", "utf8"))
);

// load config by path(absolute or relative to working directory)
conf = config.__.load("./config.json");

// delete config referenced cache(the next time you reference this module, config file will be reloaded)
config.__.desolve();

You can also use utils without the config instance:

const utils = require("confige/utils");
// NOTE: utils.desolve will be undefined

Webpack

To integrate into webpack, there is a built-in plugin:

const ConfigurePlugin = require("confige/utils/webpack");

webpack.config.js

plugins: [
  new ConfigurePlugin({
    filename: path.resolve(__dirname, "path/to/config.json")
  })
];

And import that config in your modules:

index.js

import * as config from "./path/to/config.json";

You may add a resolve alias to shorten the import:

webpack.config.js

resolve: {
    alias: {
        config: path.resolve(__dirname, 'path/to/config.json')
    }
},

index.js

import * as config from "config";

NOTE

By default the json config is loaded as string. It's also compatible with file-loader. If conflicts occur, you may need to bypass the specific loader(s) with include/exclude filters. e.g.

{
    test: /\.json$/,
    exclude: /\/config\.json$/,
    use: 'some-loader'
}

Test

npm test

License

See License