conf.js

conf.js allows you to get per-user and per-project configuration files out of the box.

Look how easy it is to use:

# settings.coffee 
path = require('path')
ConfJS = require('conf.js')
 
module.exports = new ConfJS
    userConfig: path.join(process.env.HOME, '.myprojectrc.json')
    localConfig: '.myprojectrc.json'
    default:
 
        # Your usual application settings 
        port: '9999'
        name: 'My cool app!'
        ...

Now if $HOME/.myprojecrc exists, it's settings will override the defaults.

If then create a .myprojecrc file inside one of your projects directory and run the application from within that directory, the contents will override $HOME/.myprojecrc and defaults.

Notice that you can set a custom local configuration file within your user configuration and it'll be correctly used.

You can now get/set your settings with:

settings = require('./settings')
settings.get('port') # 9999 
settings.set('name', 'My really cool app!')

Features

• Per-user configuration file:

Specify userConfig to the user configuration file path.

• Per-project configuration files:

Specify localConfig to the local configuration file name.

Installation

Install conf.js by running:

$ npm install --save conf.js

Methods

constructor(options)

Create an instance of settings.

The following options are accepted:

• parse: The function used to parse inputs (defaults to JSON.parse).
• encoding: The encoding to be used when reading files (defaults to utf8).
• default: Default settings.
• userConfig: The user config file path.
• localConfig: The user local file name.

settings.extendWithFile(file)

Extend setting with the contents of a file.

settings.set(key, value)

Set runtime value of a setting, or create a new one.

Notice you can set nested keys:

settings.set('my.nested.key', 'value')

settings.get(key)

Get the value of a setting.

Notice you can get nested keys:

settings.get('my.nested.key')

If you pass no key to settings.get(), then you will get back all the settings.

settings.has(key)

Check if settings has a specific key.

settings.extend(objects...)

Extend settings with object/s.

settings.isEmpty()

Check if settings object is empty.

settings.parse(input)

Parse input given a function passed to options.parse.

Tests

Run the test suite by doing:

$ gulp test

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: github.com/resin-io/conf.js/issues
• Source Code: github.com/resin-io/conf.js

Before submitting a PR, please make sure that you include tests, and that coffeelint runs without any warning:

$ gulp lint

Support

If you are having any problem, please raise an issue.

TODO

• Allow to set a custom configuration file with a command line option.

ChangeLog

v1.1.1

• Fix issue that prevented original default settings to be preserved.

v1.1.0

• The get() function returns all settings if no key.

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.