zbox-nodejs

This pacakge is Node.js binding for ZboxFS.

ZboxFS is a zero-details, privacy-focused in-app file system. Its goal is to help application store files securely, privately and reliably. Check more details about ZboxFS.

Get Started

Installation

npm i @zbox/nodejs

Hello World Example

Visit https://zbox.io/try to create a test repo. Copy its URI and replace [your_repo_uri] in below.

const assert = require('assert').strict;
const Zbox = require('@zbox/nodejs');

(async () => {
  // create a Zbox instance
  const zbox = new Zbox();

  // initialise environment, called once before using Zbox
  await zbox.initEnv({ log: { level: 'debug' } });

  // open the repo
  var repo = await zbox.openRepo({
    uri: '[your_repo_uri]',
    pwd: 'secret password',
    opts: { create: true }
  });

  // create a file
  var file = await repo.createFile('/hello_world.txt');

  // write content to file
  await file.writeOnce('Hello, World!');

  // seek to the beginning of file
  await file.seek({ from: Zbox.SeekFrom.Start, offset: 0 });

  // read all content as string
  const str = await file.readAllString()
  assert.strictEqual(str, 'Hello, World!');

  // close file and repo
  await file.close();
  await repo.close();

})();

API Documentation

Check the API documentation at https://docs.zbox.io/api/.

How to Build

This is for advanced user. If simply use this package, you don't need to build by yourself as npm install will automatically download the pre-built binary.

This library needs to be compiled to platform-specific binary, it currently supports 64-bit Linux, macOS and Windows.

After running the building command, it will generate index.node shared library in native folder. This library must be used with javascript wrappers, which can be found in lib directory.

Linux

Prerequisites

Docker

Build

Use zboxfs/nodejs docker image to build the shared library.

docker run --rm -v $PWD:/root/zbox zboxfs/nodejs npm run build

macOS

Prerequisites

Rust

Build

Use below command to build the shared library.

npm run build

Windows

Prerequisites

• Rust

• windows-build-tools

  npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Build

Use below command to build the shared library.

npm run build

License

This package is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.