@travetto/config

travetto: Config

The config module provides support for loading application config on startup. Configuration values support all valid yaml constructs. The configuration information is comprised of:

• yaml files
• environment variables

Resolution

Config loading follows a defined resolution path, below is the order in increasing specificity:

1. node_modules/@travetto/<module>/config/*.yml - Load framework module configurations. Defines general configuration that should be easily
2. config/*.yml - Load local application configurations
3. profile/*.yml - Load profile specific configurations as defined by the values in process.env.PROFILE, process.env.ENV.
4. process.env - Read startup configuration from environment to allow for overriding any values. Because we are overriding a yaml based configuration we need to compensate for the differences in usage patterns. Generally all environment variables are passed in as UPPER_SNAKE_CASE. When reading from process.env we will map UPPER_SNAKE_CASE to upper.snake.case, and will attempt to match by case-insensitive name.

A Complete Example

A more complete example setup would look like:

config/database.yml

database:
  host: localhost
  port: 9423
  creds:
    user: test
    password: test

profile/prod.yml

database:
  host: prod-host-db
  creds:
    user: admin-user

with environment variables

PROFILE=prod
DATABASE_PORT=1234
DATABASE_CREDS_PASSWORD=<secret>

At runtime the resolved config would be:

database:
  host: prod-host-db
  port: 1234
  creds:
    user: admin-user
    password: <secret>

Consuming

The ConfigLoader service provides direct access to all of the loaded configuration. For simplicity, a decorator, @Config allows for classes to automatically be bound with config information on post construction. The decorator will install a postConstruct method if not already defined, that performs the binding of configuration. This is due to the fact that we cannot rewrite the constructor, and order of operation matterns.

The decorator takes in a namespace, of what part of the resolved configuration you want to bind to your class. Given the following class:

@Config('database')
class DBConfig {
  private host: string;
  private port: number;
  private creds = {
    user: '',
    password: ''
  };
}

And the corresponding config file:

database:
  host: localhost
  port: 9423
  creds:
    user: bob
    password: bobspw

The instance of DBConfig would be equivalent to:

{
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 9423,
  creds : {
    user: 'bob',
    password: 'bobspw'
  }
}