alivefyi

A live FYI is a living information network.

If you are building an app that wants to provide local information to your users you are a user.

If you have information that is relevant to fun things to do, eat, etc, you are a provider.

npm i alivefyi --save

users

Users request information from the network and listen for responses from providers
• ask: ask alivefyi for relevant information (publishes questions to the request channel)
• listen: add listener to the response channel (listens to the response channel)

providers

Providers subscribe to the network and filter requests for relevant information. They might use satori queries to limit the information they receive.
• subscribe: add listener to request channel (listens to the request channel)
• publish: provide relevant information into the response channel (publish to the response channel)

Create a request:

const alivefyi = require('alivefyi');
alivefyi.ask({
  // any terms to look for
  terms: 'Machine Zone', 
  geo: {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates", 
    latitude: 37.2911779, 
    longitude: -121.9473625
  }
});
alivefyi.listen(data => update(data));

/**
* updates the console
* @param one of many data responses from one or more providers
*/
function update(data) {
  console.log('New data', data);
}

Create a feed:

const alivefyi = require('alivefyi');

/**
* listen for user inputs
*/
alivefyi.subscribe((data) => {
  if(data.terms.indexOf('Machine Zone')) {
    publishAddress();
  }
});

/**
* publish to data to user
*/
function publishAddress() {
  alivefyi.publish(result);
}

function getGoogleUrl(location) {
  const info = `${location.address.streetAddress},+${location.address.addressLocality},+${location.address.addressRegion}+${location.address.postalCode}/@${location.geo.latitude},${location.geo.longitude}`;
  const result = info.replace('+', '%2B').replace(/\s/gm, '+');
  return `https://www.google.com/maps/place/${result}`;
}

const ADDRESS = {
  "@type": "Place",
  _pid: 'Test',
  name: `Machine Zone`,
  description: ``,
  address: {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    streetAddress: '1050 County Hwy G3',
    addressLocality: 'Palo Alto',
    addressRegion: 'CA',
    postalCode: '94304',
    addressCounty: 'US',
  },
  geo: {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 37.2911779,
    "longitude": -121.9473625,
  },
  data: {
    coupons: [],
  }
}
ADDRESS.url = getGoogleUrl(ADDRESS);