dik

A small dependency-injection container with Promise support

Installation

$ npm install --save dik

Dik requires an ES5-compatible environment and a native (globally available) Promise. It is recommended to use babel.

Example

A simple example of server-side React rendering with express and react-router.

Although Dik is isomorphic, the example below is only half (arguably not that interesting half) of what it can do. A more involved example with client- and server-side Flux is coming soon.

start.js

import { createServer } from 'http'
import di from './index'
 
di.get('app').then((app) => createServer(app).listen(3000))

index.js

import Dik from 'dik'
import createApp from './app'
import createRoutes from './routes'
 
const di = new Dik()
  .register('app', createApp, ['$get'])
  .register('routes', createRoutes)
 
export default di

app.js

import express from 'express'
import React from 'react'
import Router from 'react-router'
 
function createApp ($get) {
  return $get('routes').then(createHandler)
}
 
function createHandler (routes) {
  const app = express()
  app.get('*', function (req, res) {
    Router.run(routes, req.url, function (Handler) {
      res.send(React.renderToStaticMarkup(<Handler/>))
    })
  })
  return app
}
 
export default createApp

routes.js

import React from 'react'
import Router from 'react-router'
 
const { Route, DefaultRoute, RouteHandler } = Router
 
const App = React.createClass({
  render () {
    return <div className="App"><RouteHandler /></div>
  }
})
 
const Main = React.createClass({
  render () {
    return <div className="Main"><h1>Main</h1></div>
  }
})
 
const About = React.createClass({
  render () {
    return <div className="About"><h1>About</h1></div>
  }
})
 
export default function createRoutes () {
  return (
    <Route handler={App} path="/">
      <DefaultRoute handler={Main} />
      <Route name="about" handler={About} path="about" />
    </Route>
  )
}

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcomed. For code style, please use editorconfig and jshint.

Running tests

$ git clone https://github.com/zaim/dik.git
$ npm install
$ npm test

Prior Art

Dik was inspired by Cation and create-container.

Cation is a fully customizable DIC with Promises/async support. If you need custom resource providers (e.g. Factories, Services, Static), use Cation.

create-container on the other hand is a minimal application container, but without Promises/async. If you don't want or need asynchronous support, use create-container.

License

Dik is released under the MIT license.

API

Dik

The Dik container class.

Example

const dik = new Dik()

Dik#register(id, fn, options)

Register a resource provider

The options argument can be an options object, which may have these properties:

• deps - array of resource provider ID strings that this resource is dependent upon.

• factory - boolean, if true the resource will not be cached and a new instance is returned on every get call.

As a shortcut, the array of ID strings can also be passed directly as the options argument.

A special resource id $get can be specified to get access to the Dik#get method in the resource provider function in order to look-up other resources (see example below)

Parameters

parameter	type	description
id	string	The unique ID to register the resource as
fn	function	The resource provider function
options	object	optional: Options object or array of dependency IDs

Example

// Simple resource provider:
dik.register('foo', function () {
  return 'FOO'
})
 
// Specify dependencies in options object:
dik.register('bar', function (baz) {
  return 'BAR -> ' + baz
}, { deps: ['baz'] })
 
// Specify dependencies in directly:
dik.register('bar', function (baz) {
  return 'BAR -> ' + baz
}, ['baz'])
 
// Lookup other resources:
dik.register('baz', function ($get) {
  return $get('foo').then((foo) => {
    return 'BAZ -> ' + foo
  })
}, [$get'])

Returns Dik, self

Dik#get(id)

Look up a registered resource and its dependencies

Parameters

parameter	type	description
id	string	The registered resource provider's ID

Example

dik.get('bar').then((res) => {
  expect(res).toEqual('BAR -> BAZ -> FOO')
})

Returns Promise, A Promise for the created resource object