stephenotalora / node-utils

Functional utilities for a node server

node-toolbox

Functional utilities for node

• written in ES6
• requires node 6 and above
• Simplifies common routines while setting up a node.js application

isDevEnv

---

• reads from process.env and assumes some defaults.
• Ex.

export NODE_ENV=dev;

const {isDevEnv} = require('node-utils')();
isDevEnv(); // {isDev: true, env: 'dev'};

const {isDev} = require('node-utils')();
isDev(); // true

export NODE_ENV=prod;

const {isDevEnv, isDev} = require('node-utils')();
isDev(); // false
isDevEnv(); // {isDev: false, env: 'prod'};

loadConfig

---

• sync - loads a config file from your project directory.

const {loadConfig} = require('node-utils')();
loadConfig();

defaults to:

Project
│
└─── config
     │
     └─── config-dev (.js|.json)

load from an environment variable

export NODE_ENV=qa

loads from:

Project
│
└─── config
     │
     └─── config-qa (.js|.json)

You can optionally specify additional arguments such as directory path, directory name and file name:

loadConfig(__dirname, 'test', 'test-config');

file loads from:

Project
│
└─── src
     │
     └─── test
          │
          └─── test-config (.js | .json)

1. Note that if you don't specify an extension name the function will default to a .json file format.
2. You can require the module in one of two flavours

   const {loadConfig} = require('node-utils')()

   or

   const {loadConfig} = require('node-utils')(__dirname);

   The former allows you to specify a path individually per function call or bind a path to all subsequent calls.