fake-indexeddb

This is a pure JS in-memory implementation of the IndexedDB API. Its main utility is for testing IndexedDB-dependent code in Node.js.

Installation

npm install --save-dev fake-indexeddb

or

yarn add --dev fake-indexeddb

Use

Functionally, it works exactly like IndexedDB except data is not persisted to disk.

The easiest way to use it is to use auto(), which will put all the IndexedDB objects in the global scope:

require("fake-indexeddb").auto();

var request = indexedDB.open("test", 3);
request.onupgradeneeded = function () {
    var db = request.result;
    var store = db.createObjectStore("books", {keyPath: "isbn"});
    store.createIndex("by_title", "title", {unique: true});

    store.put({title: "Quarry Memories", author: "Fred", isbn: 123456});
    store.put({title: "Water Buffaloes", author: "Fred", isbn: 234567});
    store.put({title: "Bedrock Nights", author: "Barney", isbn: 345678});
}
request.onsuccess = function (event) {
    var db = event.target.result;

    var tx = db.transaction("books");

    tx.objectStore("books").index("by_title").get("Quarry Memories").addEventListener("success", function (event) {
        console.log("From index:", event.target.result);
    });
    tx.objectStore("books").openCursor(IDBKeyRange.lowerBound(200000)).onsuccess = function (event) {
        var cursor = event.target.result;
        if (cursor) {
            console.log("From cursor:", cursor.value);
            cursor.continue();
        }
    };
    tx.oncomplete = function () {
        console.log("All done!");
    };
};

Alternatively, you can import individual objects:

var indexedDB = require("fake-indexeddb");
var IDBKeyRange = require("fake-indexeddb/FDBKeyRange");

// or...

import {default as indexedDB, FDBKeyRange as IDBKeyRange} from "fake-indexeddb";

// The rest is the same as above.

When importing individual classes directly (like var IDBKeyRange = require("fake-indexeddb/FDBKeyRange"); above), file names of all the objects are like the normal IndexedDB ones except with F replacing I, e.g. FDBIndex instead of IDBIndex.

Quality

Here's a comparison of fake-indexeddb and real browser IndexedDB implementations on the W3C IndexedDB test suite as of March 18, 2019:

Implementation	Percentage of files that pass completely
Chrome 73	99%
Firefox 65	97%
Safari 12	92%
fake-indexeddb 2.1.0	87%
Edge 18	61%

For browsers, I ran http://w3c-test.org/tools/runner/index.html and counted the passes. For fake-indexeddb, I ran npm run test-w3c.

87% is pretty good, right? Especially considering that fake-indexeddb runs in Node.js where failure is guaranteed for tests involving browser APIs like Web Workers. There are definitley still some weak points of fake-indexeddb, most of which are described in src/test/web-platform-tests/run-all.js. Your app will probably run fine, though.

Potential applications:

1. Use as a mock database in unit tests.

2. Use the same API in Node.js and in the browser.

3. Support IndexedDB in old or crappy browsers.

4. Somehow use it within a caching layer on top of IndexedDB in the browser, since IndexedDB can be kind of slow.

5. Abstract the core database functions out, so what is left is a shell that allows the IndexedDB API to easily sit on top of many different backends.

6. Serve as a playground for experimenting with IndexedDB.

License

Apache 2.0