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@based/client
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Based client
import based from '@based/client'
// Create client
const client = based({
env: 'myEnv',
org: 'myOrg',
project: 'myProject',
})
client.once('connect', (isConnected) => {
console.info('connect', isConnected)
})
// Authenticate and use localStorage or a file in node
const authState = await client.setAuthState({
token,
persistent: true,
})
// Call a function
await client.call('db:update-schema', {
languages: ['en'],
types: {
thing: {
fields: {
name: { type: 'string' },
},
},
},
})
// Get data once
const data = await client.query('db', { $id: 'fwe2233', title: true }).get()
// Get updates, persistent stores results in localStorage
const unsubscribe = client
.query('db', { $id: 'fwe2233', title: true }, { persistent: true })
.subscribe((data) => console.log(data))
// Channels are stateless streams
const unsubscribeChannel = client
.channel('events', { type: 'page-view' })
.subscribe((event) => console.log(event))
client.channel('events', { type: 'page-view' }).publish({ id: 'mypage' })
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Based client
The npm package @based/client receives a total of 349 weekly downloads. As such, @based/client popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @based/client demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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