secondthought

Some Light Abstraction for RethinkDB

The RethinkDB Node driver is already very simple to use, but there are methods that I wish I "just had" at the ready. Those are:

• Query, which returns an array
• First, Exists
• Save, which upserts a record
• Automatic table/db config
• DB Manipulation (Create/Drop)

So I created it. That's what we have here.

Usage

Install using

npm install second-thought --save

To use this in your code, just configure what you need:

var db = require("second-thought").init({db : "test", tables : ['foo', 'bar']});

The init method sets the database name as well as drops the tables on the DB prototype as fields. This is interesting for a number of reasons!

Each table that you send into init is a full-blown RethinkDB table, so you can step outisde the abstraction at any point:

db.connect(function(err,conn){

  //this is a ReQL query
  db.foo.eqJoin('bar_id', db.bar).run(conn, function(err,cursor){
    //run the joined action
  });
});

In addition you can do all kinds of fun things, like...

//installation of the DB and tables
db.install();

//querying
db.query(db.foo, {category : "beer"}, function(err,beers){
  //beers is an array, so have at it
});

db.first(db.bar, {email : "[e-mail]"}, function(err,rob){
  //hi Rob
});

db.exists(db.foo, {name : "bill"}, function(err, exists){
  //exists will tell you if it's there
});

Wanna Help?

Just do me a favor and open a PR with some ideas and hopefully a test or two. Thanks!