onionskin

OnionSkin

OnionSkin is multi-layer cache manager library that works with Node.js and vanilla javascript

Installation

You can either install via npm

$ npm install onionskin

Or via bower

$ bower install onionskin

Or you can just grab a copy of it here

Basic Usage

// Library is exposed on the browser with browserify for API consistency with node.js
var OnionSkin = require('onionskin');

// Initialize a pool
var pool = new OnionSkin();

pool.get('my/key/path').catch(function (err) {
  // Data is either inexistent or expired
  return slowFuncThatReturnsPromise().then(this.save);
});

Documentation

You can find more usage examples at the website's Getting Started section Also there is the API Documentation

Need help?

You can:

• Talk to me at @onionskinjs
• Ask a question at StackOverflow
• Send me an email at [e-mail]

Want to help?

So you decided you want to help... This is awesome!!! Follow this steps and I will be really glad to merge your work and add you to the contributors!

• Fork the project

• Clone it and create a branch with the name of the feature you intend to add

  $ git clone [e-mail]:username/onionskin.git
  $ git checkout -b new-feature-name
  

• Install the dependencies

  $ bower install # for browser tests
  $ npm install # for node.js tests
  

• Please add tests to your features.

  1. Tests run with Mocha and use Chai for expectations.
  2. Expect is preferred to should due to browser compatibility
  3. The test folder respect the same structure as the source, you can run the tests through npm:

  $ npm test
  

  or run specific tests with mocha:

  mocha test/stash/drivers/*.js
  

  you also can run the tests on browser

  open test/index.html
  

• Send me a pull request

What is coming next

• WebSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB [, ... ] drivers
• Benchmarks
• More examples

Contributors

This project was created by @tadeuzagallo inspired by a PHP library named Stash and was originally Stash.js. If you want to join just follow the instructions, any help will be very welcome.