autoupdatedjson

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when all you need is a json file hot loaded into memory when the file changes.

  • You have some hard coded json in your javascript, you want to move it to a file.
  • You know if you move it to a file, you'll have to read from the disk every time, and you know that's bad.
  • You know that if you create a watcher, that is better because it will only have to watch for changes and parse and read only when needed
  • You are too lazy to make a wrapper class for fs.watch + fs.read and/or busy doing other things

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install autoupdatedjson

 
 
var auj = require('autoupdatedjson');
 
 
 
// register ./test/configfile.json to the configfile key
 
auj.set('configfile', path.join(process.cwd(), 'test', 'configfile.json'));
 
 
// get the data for 'configfile'
 
auj.get('configfile', function (configfile) {
 
  console.dir(configfile);
 
  {
    error: hopefully null
    data: { ... parsed file contents ... },
    meta: {
      last_updated: Date object of the last time configfile.data was parsed
    },
    watcher: fs watcher being used
  }
 
});
 
// call get(key, fn) as often as you like, the watcher will keep 'configfile' updated
// will only dip to file i/o and parse when it needs to instead of parsing every time
 
 
// when you are done
 
configfile.watcher.close();
 
 

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