dark-sky-skeleton

dark-sky-skeleton

Based on Elias Hussary's dark-sky.

An isomorphic barebones 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

Client Side Setup

Import it

import DarkSkySkeleton from 'dark-sky-skeleton';

Initialize it

DarkSkySkeleton(apiKey, proxy)

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

Experimental (untested - help wanted)

The above is simple and great for testing, but it exposes your api key in client side requests. Using a server-side proxy to make the actual api call to dark sky and is highly suggested as this hides the API key from client side requests [ref].

The proxy would receive a request issued by dark-sky-api and attach this query to a base uri (like the following: https://api.darksky.net/forecast/your-api-key) and return a final request.

import DarkSkySkeleton from 'dark-sky-skeleton';
const api = new DarkSkySkeleton(false, '//base-url-to-proxy/service');

Server Side Setup

Import it

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

Initialize it

DarkSkySkeleton(apiKey, proxy)

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

Passing true as the proxy parameter indicates that the caller is server-side (and essentially a proxy).

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));