crafity-config

Crafity Config

This module can be used to load in different configuration settings based on a target environments.
In almost every project there are platform and environment specific settings. Think about paths, port numbers, databases and web services, credentials, etc, etc.

Installation

Install Crafity Config is via NPM

$ npm install crafity-config

Or by cloning this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/Crafity/crafity-config.git
$ cd crafity-config
$ npm install

Public API

To load the config.json data use the following JS code.

// Require the crafity config module
var configuration = require('crafity-config');

// Open the default configuration
configuration.open(function (err, config) {
  if (err) { throw err; }
  
  // Work with the configuration
  
});

.open([path], [info], callback)

• path String The JSON configuration file to load.
• info Boolean Print verbose output to the console
• callback Function

path defaults to ./config.json and info defaults to false.

Opens a configuration file using the path argument and calls the

Here is an example of loading a config file and printing the status to the console:

var configuration = require('crafity-config');

configuration.open("config.json", true, function (err, config) {
  if (err) { throw err; }
  console.log(config)
});

Configuration

Let's take a look at a sample configuration file for a web server.

{
  "environment": "development",
  "shared": {
    "webserver": {
      "ip": "127.0.0.1",
      "port": 4242,
      "gzip": true
    }
  },
  "development": {
    "webserver": {
      "gzip": false,
      "debug": true
    }
  },
  "test": {},
  "production": {
    "webserver": {
      "port": 80
      "ip": "0.0.0.0"
    }
  }
}

Save this configuration to a file called config.json and place it in the root of your application. Of course another name and path can be used as well, but that needs to be specified explicitly (see The API section).

Environments

So what are these environments and how do you configure them?
In the example JSON above you can see three environments: Shared, development and production.
Only the shared environment is a special case, the other two are made up.

Shared environment

As the names states the shared environment shares its settings with the other custom defined environments. Often there are settings that do not differ from one environment to the next or most of the environments share the same setting except for a few. To prevent a lot of duplication the shared environment can be used. By default an environment inherits all the shared settings. The environment specific settings are then added or overwritten.

In the sample JSON configuration above you can see the following scenarios:

• The development environment gets all the shared settings, but disables gzip explicitly and adds a debug setting.
• The test environment is exactly the same as shared environment.
• The production environment get the shared settings, but changes the IP and Port.

###Select an environment When a configuration file is loaded the environment property will be used to set the default environment. In the sample above the development environment will be used by default.

To overide the default environment a NODE_ENV variable can be specified on the command line to force a specific environment. In the example below the production environment will be used:

$ NODE_ENV=production node main.js 

NB. The environment name is case sensitive.

Links

• Issues: Github
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• Website: Crafity

License

(The MIT License)

• Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Bart Riemens [e-mail]
• Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Galina Slavova [e-mail]
• Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Crafity [e-mail]

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