niodb

🐬 Niodb

The simplest high performance local JSON database.

Installation

$ npm i niodb --save

Quick Example

The following code creates a Nio database on an empty .json file example_data.json, and adds some key-value pairs to it.

import { Nio } from 'niodb' // OR const { Nio } = require('niodb')
const db = await new Nio('example_data.json')
db.name = 'NioDB'
db.message = 'Hello NioDB!'
db.users = {
  count: 100
}
db.users.count++

The example_data.json file after running this code is going to be:

{
  "name": "NioDB",
  "message": "Hello NioDB!",
  "users": {
    "count": 101
  }
}

Getting Started

Setting / Getting the value of a key

Setting a key in the database to hold a value is like assigning a value to a JavaScript object:

import { Nio } from 'niodb'
const db = await new Nio()

db.key = 'value'

If filepath is defined, changes to the data will be stored on disk asynchronously and atomically.

Getting the value of a key is also very simple:

console.log(db.key)

🌟 Just think of the Nio instance as a normal JavaScript object.

Wrapper methods

Alternatively, you can use wrapper methods $set and $get to do the same thing:

db.$set(key, value)
db.$get(key)

The choice is yours.

Deleting / Checking if a key exists

Just like deleting and checking for keys in JavaScript objects:

delete db.key
console.log(key in db)

Wrapper methods

db.$delete(key)
db.$exists(key)

API

Nio

• new Nio(filepath, config):

Each Nio instance is a database binding to a .json file:

const database = await new Nio(filepath, config);

Filepath

If filepath is a string, new Nio(filepath) returns a Promise object that will return a Nio instance, so await must be used to get the instance.

If filepath is not defined, it will return a Nio instance, so no await is needed. However, for consistency, you should always use await when initializing the database.

Config

config is optional, it should be an object.

All options are:

await new Nio(filepath, {
  // this method is called when the .json file on your disk has been updated
  transactionUpdated: () => {}
})

Wrapper methods

All wrapper methods are:

• $set(key, value): Set the value of a key. Setting the value to undefined will lead to a TypeError.
• $get(key): Get the value of a key.
• $delete(key): Delete a key.
• $exists(key): Return if a key exists.
• $randomKey(): Return a random key.
• $rename(key, newKey): Rename key to newKey, replacing the new key if it already exists.
• $type(key): Return the data type of the value stored in key. Possible return values are: array, object, null, number, string, boolean, and undefined.

Chaining

You can chain together wrapper methods:

const db = await new Nio()
db.content = {
  content1: 'hello',
  content2: 'this is NioDB',
  content3: 'you will like it'
}
db.content.$delete('content1').$rename('content2', 'introduction').$set('content3', true)

console.log(db)

You will get:

{
  content: {
    content3: true,
    introduction: 'this is NioDB'
  }
}

Error handling

import { DatabaseError } from 'niodb'

Test & Build

$ npm test
$ npm build

License

MIT