configs-overload

configs-overload

Load configs with ease

This package helps you to organize your configurations and load them on per-environment basis. Also it have default file, which reduce amount of repetative key-value pairs between configuration files.

Installation

npm install configs-overload

Example

Consider, you have directory with following structure:

.
└── configs
    ├── default.js
    ├── development.js
    ├── production.js
    ├── stress.json
    └── testing
        └── index.js

And this code in application:

var config = require('configs-overload')('./configs', { env: 'production' });

configs-overoload will load configs from default.js and extend them with object loaded from production.js.

API

configs-overload([directory, options])

directory

Type: String Default: path.join(process.cwd(), 'configs')

Path to directory with config files.

options

Type: Object

• defaultEnv - name of default environment, which will be overloaded with current environment (default: process.env.NODE_DEFAULT_ENV or default)
• env - Environment name which will override defaultEnv (default: process.env.NODE_ENV or defaultEnv).

Environment variables

• NODE_CONFIG_DIR - default directory, if it not specified in options.
• NODE_DEFAULT_ENV - "default" environment name
• NODE_ENV - environment name

Methods

• extend(...objects) - loads configs in directory over already loaded. Object can be:
  • string with path to file - require(path) and extend config with result.
  • string with path to directory - load configs directory in directory in default order.
  • object - extend config with object.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Vsevolod Strukchinsky and other contributors

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