drive-config

drive-config

A npm module for maintaining user config files (in json) on Google Drive.

About

We can take advantage of Google Drive's appdata folder to store a users config data for our application. The user cannot see these files, but can delete config data and revoke our app's access on their Drive by clicking the gear icon in the top right -> Settings -> Manage Apps -> Options Dropdown.

Usage

This module is currently written with ES6 for Node 6+

Setup

var googleAuth = require('google-auth-library');
let driveConfig = require('drive-config');

// get your user's oauth2Client 
// more info about setting this up at https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client
let auth = new googleAuth();
let oauth2Client = new auth.OAuth2(clientId, clientSecret, redirectUrl);
oauth2Client.credentials = user.creds;

let service = new driveConfig(oauth2Client);

List

Gets all files in a user's google drive for your application

let service = new driveConfig(oauth2Client);

service.list().then(files => {
    // do something with files
}).catch(err => {
    // handle errors
});

// Resolves as an array of files
[
    {
        id: String,
        name: String,
        data: Object,
        createdTime: Datetime,
        modifiedTime: Datetime,
    },
    ...
]

Create

Makes a new files in the user's google drive

let service = new driveConfig(oauth2Client);

service.create(fileName, data).then(file => {
    // do something with the file
}).catch(err => {
    // handle errors
});

// Resolves as a file
{
    id: String,
    name: String,
    data: Object,
    createdTime: Datetime,
    modifiedTime: Datetime,
}