credentials-context

Verifiable Credentials v1 Context (credentials-context)

A Verifiable Credentials v1 context library for JavaScript

This project packages the DID Context from the Verifiable Credentials v1 spec for use with Node.js and web apps.

Table of Contents

• Security
• Background
• Install
• Usage
• Contribute
• Commercial Support
• License

Security

TBD

Background

See also (related specs):

• Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1

Install

Requires Node.js 8.3+

To install via NPM:

npm install credentials-context

Usage

import credentialsContext from 'credentials-context';
// or
const credentialsContext = require('credentials-context');

// use URL in a JSON-LD context
const obj = {
  "@context": [
    credentialsContext.CONTEXT_URL_V1,
    // ...
  ],
  // ...
};

// get context data for a specific context
const data = credentialsContext.CONTEXT;
// ...

This package can be used with bundlers, such as webpack, in browser applications.

API

The library exports two properties:

• constants: A Object that maps constants to well-known context URLs. The main constant CONTEXT_URL_V1 may be updated from time to time to the latest context location.
• contexts: A Map that maps URLs to full context data.

Contribute

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Commercial Support

Commercial support for this library is available upon request from Digital Bazaar: [e-mail]

License

• Code: BSD 3-Clause © Digital Bazaar
• Contexts: W3C Software and Document License
• See the LICENSE file for details.

Changelog

2.0.0 - 2019-09-20

Changed

• Refactor to use current context repo template.