Notify-IO

Introduction

Notify-IO gives you an easy to use interface for defining and calling your own custom notifications.

1. Geting Started

The steps below will walk you through setting up a basic project to get started with notify-io

step 0: NPM install notify-io

$ npm i notify-io

step 1: Require in Notify and SchemaBuilder

const { Notify, SchemaBuilder } = require('notify-io')

step 2: Create new SchemaBuilder object

const schema = new SchemaBuilder()

step 3: Define Schema with the create function

schema.create('welcome', {
    en: (noun) => `welcome back ${noun}`, 
    zh: (noun) => `欢迎回来 ${noun}`,
})

step 4: Use Notify in your project

const notify = new Notify(schema)
notify.stateTo('info') // info is the default state, so only call stateTo() if you need another state.
 
const msg = notify.message('welcome', 'some-username', 'username')
 
console.log(msg)

step 5: The output of step 4

{
  lang: 'en',
  state: 'validation',
  messages: [
    {
      key: 'username',
      state: 'info',
      code: 'welcome',
      message: 'welcome back some-username'
    }
  ]
}

Schema Definition Types

Schemas are at the core of Notify-IO. Here we will take a look at the three types of Schemas, specifically how they are defined and when what type is used. Schema types are distinguished based on the mount of arguments the schema function takes.

The three types are:

• Constant Schema Definition (CSD)
• Unary Schema Definition (USD)
• Multidimensional Schema Definition (MSD)

Note: keys must be valid ISO 639-1 lang codes e.g. "en"

Constant Schema Definition (CSD)

schema.create('already_registered', {
    en: () => `please try loggin in!`, 
    zh: () => `请登陆`,
})

Unary Schema Definition (USD)

schema.create('welcome', {
    en: (noun) => `welcome back ${noun}`, 
    zh: (noun) => `欢迎回来 ${noun}`,
})

Multidimensional Schema Definition (MSD)

schema.create('should_match', {
    en: (data) => `${data.noun1} and ${data.noun2} should match!`,
    zh: (data) => `${data.noun1} 和 ${data.noun2} 应该相同!`
})

API Documentation

.message()

The message method has three parameters. The first is required and the other two are optional. Notify-IO-Instance.message(schema-name, schema-data, message-key). The message method renders handles schema rendering for you.

const notify = new Notify('validation')
notify
    .message('any.required', 'password', 'password')

.load()

The load method has three parameters. The first is required and the other two are optional. Notify-IO-Instance.load(schema-name, schema-data, message-key). The load method only loads your Schema to a queue. When you are done loading messages you can call the render method which will render all Schema in the queue.

const notify = new Notify('validation')
notify
    .load('any.required', 'password', 'password')
    .load('string.empty', 'password', 'password')
    .render()

.render()

The render method takes no parameters. It renders all Schema in the queue.

const notify = new Notify('validation')
notify
    .load('any.required', 'password', 'password')
    .load('string.empty', 'password', 'password')
    // call load as many times as you need ...
    .render()