slay-config

Standard, sane defaults for config in slay apps.

Usage

Simply add slay-config as a preboot in your standard preboot location. Generally speaking it should be towards the top of your application's preboots since it will be loading in configuration that others will need.

lib/preboot.js

module.exports = function (app, options, done) {
  // ...
 
  app.preboot(require('slay-config')({
    //
    // Any defaults for configuring the `nconf` instance
    // attached to the `app`.
    //
  }));
 
  // ...
};

This will setup your application config to load from (in-order):

1. Any forced programmatic overrides
2. CLI arguments
3. Environment variables
4. Config file (defaulting to config/{env}.json)
5. [Optional] Secure file

Options

app.preboot(require('slay-config')(defaults));

Where defaults can have the following properties (all of which are optional):

• overrides: {Object} Any overrides for your application's config.
• argv: {Object} Settings for loading CLI arguments into application config.
• env: {Object} Settings for loading environment variables into application config.
• file: {Object} Settings for loading a file to configure your application. Defaults to ${app.root}/config/${env}.json.
• secure: {String} If set, will look for secure nconf settings in the config property at that location.

Default CLI args and ENV vars

If you do not have the luxury of being able to pass in explicit options to configure a slay-config, we have added the ability to configure slay-config with ENV vars or CLI args.

CLI Args:

• config: The file path for the configuration file to load.
• secure-file: The file path for the secure configuration file to load.
• secure-secret: The file path for the secret used to encrypt the secure configuration file.

ENV vars:

• CONFIG
• SECURE_FILE
• SECURE_SECRET

Loading encrypted secure config

This can be done in one of two ways:

1. Specifying the secure option in your cleartext config file

When specifying this option be aware that all relative file paths will resolved from app.root.

config/development.json

{
  // ... other configuration values
  "secure": {
    "file": "./config/secure/development.json",
    "secretPath": "./config/secure/development.key"
  }
}

2. Specifying the secure option when requiring slay-config

  app.preboot(require('slay-config')({
    secure: {
      file: './config/secure/development.json'
      secretPath: './config/secure/development.key'
    }
  }));
 

Changing configuration loading

Often (and mainly for testing purposes) it is often useful to change the options passed into to your configuration loader so as to turn on or off certain values (e.g. turning off logging in your tests).

With this in mind any defaults passed to slay-config can be overridden by the config property passed to app.start e.g.:

lib/preboot.js

module.exports = function (app, options, done) {
  // ...
 
  app.preboot(require('slay-config')({
    file: { file: path.join(app.root, 'config', app.env + '.json') }
  }));
 
  // ...
};

Can be overridden to a test configuration file when calling app.start:

app.start({
  config: {
    file: { file: path.join(app.root, 'test', 'config', app.env + '.json') }
  }
}, callback);

Tests

npm test

License

MIT

Contributors: Fady Matar, Charlie Robbins