rob-config

Robust configuration module for nodejs, built on top of convict.

Installation

npm install rob-config --save

Why another config package?

config is a very simple and powerfull config package but it lacks from schema and validation.

convict is not simple to use, but way more robust and overridable.

So I wanted something:

• Easy to use like config
• With schema and documentation like convict
• With possibility to override with env variable or command line argument like convict
• With a command to validate config for dev AND before deployment to production
• With a command to see the builded config depends on env and default value (easier to debug)

Here it is and it's very easy to migrate from config or convict.

Usage

Define a config schema, simple object.

See https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict#the-schema for documentation about schema definition.

For example: config/schema.js

module.exports = {
    env: {
        doc: 'The applicaton environment.',
        format: ['production', 'staging', 'integration', 'development', 'test'],
        default: 'development',
        env: 'NODE_ENV',
    },
    api: {
        port: {
            doc: 'The API port',
            format: 'port',
            default: 3000,
        },
        timeout: {
            doc: 'The API timeout',
            format: 'nat',
            default: 60 * 1000, // 1 minutes
        },
    },
};

Then, define the first config file.

For example: config/development.js

module.exports = {
    api: {
        port: 3001, // test with "nothing" value to see validation error
    },
};

You can, optionnaly, define a config/formats.js to add one or more custom format to convict.

See https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict#custom-format-checking for documentation about custom formats.

convict.addFormats() will be call under the hood.

For exemple: config/formats.js

module.exports = {
    'float-percent': {
        validate: function (val) {
            if (val !== 0 && (!val || val > 1 || val < 0)) {
                throw new Error('must be a float between 0 and 1, inclusive');
            }
        },
        coerce: function (val) {
            return parseFloat(val, 10);
        },
    },
};

Display your builded configuration

Run ./node_modules/.bin/rob-config show:

Validate your configuration against schema

Run ./node_modules/.bin/rob-config validate:

In case of error:

Display the schema description

Run ./node_modules/.bin/rob-config describe:

Use it in your project

const config = require('rob-config');
 
console.log(config.get('api.port'));

Change config dir

You can set env variable ROB_CONFIG_DIR with the relative path of your project configuration directory.

Versioning

To keep better organization of releases we follow the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 guidelines.

See Releases for detailed changelog.

License

MIT License © Jérôme Macias