Versioning the config store

[EduardoSimon]

Hi, I'd like to congratulate you for the amazing work you've done with this package. It's been great. However, I've got a problem when I update the default configuration in the ConfigStore declaration and release it to npm. Users who have an older version of my package don't get their local config-store delete under ~/.config/configstore. Should I do this in the bootstrap of my package and save the version in the config itself? If the version is older do something like config.clear().

Thanks in advance

[sindresorhus]

Yes, it's up to you to handle breaking version changes.

[EduardoSimon]

Okay, any tips on that?

[sindresorhus]

It really depends on how you use it. If the values can be regenerated, .clear() is fine. Otherwise, you need to migrate over the data to the new structure.

I have a similar package that supports migrations: https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#migrations