dark-sky-skeleton

dark-sky-skeleton

Based on Elias Hussary's dark-sky.

A barebones 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.

Install it

 npm install dark-sky-skeleton

Require it

import darkSkySkeleton from 'dark-sky-skeleton';

Initialize it

While dark-sky-skeleton allows embedding api keys through use of jsonp on the backend using a proxy to make the api call is highly suggested as this hides the API key from client side requests [ref].

• proxy url is optional
• pass an empty string or false for api key if using proxy url

const darkSky = new darkSkySkeleton('your-dark-sky-api-key', '//base-url-to-proxy/service');

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.:

const darkSky = new darkSkyApi('your-dark-sky-api-key');
darkSky.latitude(lat)
  .longitude(long);

darkSky.get();

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));

TODO

• reset query params when appropriate
• add testing