emberbase

A cheap Firebase clone.

Emberbase is a self-hosted Firebase clone. It is currently in an early development stage, unexpected results might happen and things might break.

License: MIT

Installation

Emberbase runs on Node.js; to install it globally, just run:

npm install emberbase -g

Use

Server

To start an Emberbase server, just do:

emberbase

Emberbase creates a configuration file named emberbase_conf.json. It contains the username and password for the administration page (http://localhost:port) as well as the port number of the server. The default username/password/port is admin/admin/8000.

The server gets its configuration from the aforementioned config file, but you can override its values with the folowing options:

• -p, --port: a port number (default is 8000),
• -u, --username: a username for the admin interface (default is admin),
• -v, --password: a password for the admin interface (default is admin),

And you can save those values to the configuration file by adding the -s, --save flag.

The order in which settings are applied is the following:

command line options > configuration file > admin/admin/8000.

If you need this help from the command line, write:

emberbase --help

Client

The Emberbase client is a browser javascript library. It is bundled with the server and you just need to add this to your code:

<script src="/emberbase.min.js"></script>

Emberbase

new Emberbase (url [String][Mandatory]) [Mandatory]

Construct the Emberbase client object with the URL of your application as parameter. The URL must the form of http://host:port/<route>, where route is a route you created from the interface.

Emberbase.set

Emberbase.set (data [JSON][Mandatory])

Write data to your database. Overwrite any data that is already present.

Emberbase.push

Emberbase.push (data [JSON][Mandatory])

Write data to your database. Add data to your database as a list item. If the list does not exist (or the value stored is not a list but a single value inserted with the set command), any value already present is deleted and a new list is created.

Emberbase.on

Emberbase.on (event [String][Mandatory], callback [Function][Mandatory])

Listen to events on your database.

Client events

value

value

This event is fired when data is inserted to the database using the set command. It is fired upon instanciation of the Emberbase client if the base already contains data, and every time a client saves new data to the database.

child_added

child_added

This event is fired when data is appended to a list using the push command. It is fired upon instanciation of the Emberbase client if the base already contains data, and every time a client pushes new data to the database.

Testing

Tests are on their way.

Misc.

Emberbase is built with socket.io and express. You should also check out nvm, which provides a great virtual environment for node.

License

MIT

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Alexandre Jablon alex@jablon.me

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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