loki-nativescript-adapter

Loki NativeScript adapter

A Loki adapter for NativeScript apps.

What is Loki

LokiJS is a document oriented database written in javascript, published under MIT License. Its purpose is to store javascript objects as documents in a nosql fashion and retrieve them with a similar mechanism. - LokiJS

Demo

Watch the example application on YouTube

Installation

Run the following command from the /app directory of your project:

$ npm install lokijs --save
$ npm install loki-nativescript-adapter --save

Usage

// Requirements
var fs = require("file-system");
var Loki = require("./node_modules/lokijs/src/lokijs.js");
var LokiNativeScriptAdapter = require("./node_modules/loki-nativescript-adapter/loki-nativescript-adapter.js");

// Setup Loki
var path = fs.path.join(fs.knownFolders.currentApp().path, "database.db");
var db = new Loki(path, {
    adapter: new LokiNativeScriptAdapter()
});

// Save some movies
var movies = db.addCollection("movies");
movies.insert({ title: "Ghost Busters", year: 1984 });
movies.insert({ title: "Ghost Busters II", year: 1989 });
movies.insert({ title: "Ghost Busters", year: 2016 });
console.log(movies.data);
db.saveDatabase();

// Load and find some movies
db.loadDatabase({}, function() {
    var movies = db.getCollection("movies");
    console.log(movies.find({ title: "Ghost Busters" }));
});

To go deeper in Loki have a look at the documentation.