dark-sky-skeleton

dark-sky-skeleton

Based on Elias Hussary's dark-sky.

A barebones isomorphic js wrapper library for Dark Sky API (previously known as Forecast.io). See Dark Sky developer docs: https://darksky.net/dev/docs.

For a more robust solution see dark-sky-api.

You can use dark-sky-skeleton client-side OR server-side. Note: an example of a server side proxy used with client side dark-sky-skeleton is forthecoming...

Install it

 npm install dark-sky-skeleton

Import it

import DarkSkySkeleton from 'dark-sky-skeleton';

or Common JS

const DarkSkySkeleton = require('dark-sky-skeleton');

Initialize it

DarkSkySkeleton(apiKey, proxy)

• {string|bool} apiKey - your Dark Sky api key or false if using proxy
• {string|bool} [proxy] - optional URL to proxy service or true if running server-side

Client-side Setup

const api = new DarkSkySkeleton('your-dark-sky-api-key');

Proxy URL - Client-side be warned!

The above is simple and great for testing, but your api key is exposed in every request (when running in client-side). Using a separate server-side proxy to make the actual api call to dark sky is highly suggested as this hides the api key. [ref].

To use a proxy set your api-key to false or an empty string, and pass a URL to the proxy service as the proxy (second) param.

const api = new DarkSkySkeleton(false, '//base-url-to-proxy/service');

Experimental (help wanted)

dark-sky-skeleton theoretically supports a proxy service (aka untested). A proxy service would receive a request issued by dark-sky-skeleton, attach this query to a base URI (like the following: https://api.darksky.net/forecast/your-api-key), and return a final request.

Server Side Setup

const api = new DarkSkySkeleton('your-dark-sky-api-key', true);

Passing true as the proxy parameter indicates that the caller is server-side. Awesome!

Use it

darkSky.latitude(lat)
  .longitude(long)
  .units('us')
  .language('en')
  .time('2000-04-06T12:20:05') // moment().year(2000).format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss')
  .extendHourly(true)
  .get();
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Feel free to omit setting of latitude and longitude for subsequent calls i.e.:

darkSky.latitude(lat)
  .longitude(long)
  .get()
  .then(data => console.log(data));

darkSky.get().then(data => console.log(data));

Make use of excludes

"Exclude some number of data blocks from the api response. This is useful for reducing latency and saving cache space (see 'Request Parameters')."

const excludes = ['alerts', 'currently', 'daily', 'flags', 'hoURLy', 'minutely'],
  exludesBlock = excludes.filter(val => val != 'currently').join(',')
darkSky.latitude(lat)
  .longitude(long)
  .exclude(excludesBlock)
  .get()
  .then(data => console.log(data));