frontend-gitlab

GitLab api node module that does not require server side dependencies.

Usage

The goal is to make a very light weight set of functions to access the gitlab api.

There's a mix of focused requests and more broad custom functions. And you can use composition to use credentials over and over. So import only the ones that you need.

Here's a couple of examples:

import {getIssues} from 'frontend-gitlab/requests/issues';
getIssues({url:'http://foo.gitlab.com', token:'abc123'})();

That will return promise that will resolve with a list of project issues.

A slightly more complicated example shows the value of composition:

import {getProjectIssues} from 'frontend-gitlab/requests/issues';
const projectIssues = getProjectIssues({url:'http://foo.gitlab.com', token:'abc123'});
//Return the closed issues
projectIssues(0, {'state':'closed'})
//Return the open issues
projectIssues(0, {'state':'open'})

You can also mix and match

import gitlab from 'frontend-gitlab';
import {projectIssues, getProjectIssues} from 'frontend-gitlab/requests/issues';
 
const creds = gitlab({url:'http://foo.gitlab.com', token:'abc123'})
 
creds(getIssues);
creds(getProjectIssues, 0, {
  'state':'open'
});

In this case, all you need to do is pass the function along with its arguments and you only need to add the credentials once.

This is a work in progress, so there are very little prebuilt functions. However, you should be able to do anything you want by creating a custom request with a few inputs.

Just get the path for the request you are making, pass a request type if needed and then an object for the parameters.

import {request} from 'frontend-gitlab/requests/custom'
const requester = request({url:'http://foo.gitlab.com', token:'abc123'});
 
// Default request type is GET
requester('projects/0/issues', {
    params: {
        'state':'closed'
    }
})
 
// Omit the options object if a simple git request:
fetchContributors = (projectNumber) => {
  return requester(`/projects/${projectNumber}/repository/contributors`)
}
 
// POST or any other method can be specified
requester('projects/0/issues', {
    requestType: {
        method: "POST"
    },
    params: {
        title: 'New Issue',
        labels: 'iteration-1',
        assignee_id: 1
    }
})

Everything returns a promise, so use as you would for any other request.