confi-helpers

Confi Helpers

Confi Helpers is not designed to be used directly. It is used by Confi.

Helpers:

exists(name)

Checks if a var is set.

• name - name of the variable to check.

Returns: boolean

getEnv(name, [fallback])

Gets an environment variable.

• name - the environment variable to grab.
• fallback - a fallback value to use if the environment variable is not set.

Returns: string - Value of environment variable or thrown error if name doesn't exist and no fallback provided.

getEnvInt(name, [fallback])

Gets an environment variable.

• name - the environment variable to grab.
• fallback - a fallback value to use if the environment variable is not set.

Returns: int - Value of environment variable, casted to an integer or thrown error if name doesn't exist and no fallback provided.

getEnvOrFilename(name)

Reads a file or returns value of an environment variable.

• name - Name of the environment variable.

Returns: string - Contents of a file or value of the environment variable. If variable not found error will be thrown.

hasValue(value)

Checks if a passed variable has a value and isn't null, undefined, or empty.

Note: Arrays and objects are not checked.

• value - Passed variable to check.

Returns: boolean

readFile(name)

Checks if a passed variable has a value and isn't null, undefined, or empty.

Note: Arrays and objects are not checked.

• name - Filename

Returns: string File contents.

truthy(value, [fallback])

Checks if a value is truthy.

• value - value to check.
• fallback - defaults to false

Returns: boolean

truthyEnv(name, [fallback])

Checks if an environment variable is truthy.

• value - name of the environment variable.
• fallback - defaults to false

Returns: boolean

ms(value)

Converts a value to milliseconds. Uses the ms package.

• value - value to convert.

Returns: mixed

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