ArangoDB JavaScript Driver
The official ArangoDB low-level JavaScript client.
Install
With Yarn or NPM
yarn add arangojs-with-timeout## - or - npm install --save arangojs-with-timeout
From source
git clone https://github.com/hkbarton/arangojscd arangojsnpm installnpm run dist
Basic usage example
// Modern JavaScript;const db = ; { const now = Date; try const cursor = await db; const result = await cursornext; // ... catch err // ... }; // or plain old Node-stylevar arangojs = ;var db = ;var now = Date;db ;
Common issues
error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Blob'.
TypeScript Even if your project doesn't contain any browser code, you need to add "dom"
to the "lib"
array in your tsconfig.json
to make arangojs work. This is a known limitation because the library supports both browser and Node environments and there is no common binary format that works in both environments:
// tsconfig.json- "lib": ["es6"],+ "lib": ["es6", "dom"],
Documentation
Testing
Run the tests using the yarn test
or npm test
commands:
yarn test# - or - npm test
By default the tests will be run against a server listening on
http://localhost:8529
(using username root
with no password). To
override this, you can set the environment variable TEST_ARANGODB_URL
to
something different:
TEST_ARANGODB_URL=http://myserver.local:8530 yarn test# - or - TEST_ARANGODB_URL=http://myserver.local:8530 npm test
For development arangojs tracks the development build of ArangoDB. This means tests may reflect behavior that does not match any existing public release of ArangoDB.
To run tests for a specific release of ArangoDB other than the latest
development build, use the environment variable ARANGO_VERSION
, e.g. for 3.3:
ARANGO_VERSION=30300 yarn test# - or - ARANGO_VERSION=30300 npm test
The value follows the same format as the arangoVersion
config option,
i.e. XYYZZ where X is the major version, YY is the two digit minor version
and ZZ is the two digit patch version (both zero filled to two digits).
Any incompatible tests will appear as skipped (not failed) in the test result.
To run the resilience/failover tests you need to set the environment variables
RESILIENCE_ARANGO_BASEPATH
(to use a local build of ArangoDB) or
RESILIENCE_DOCKER_IMAGE
(to use a docker image by name):
RESILIENCE_ARANGO_BASEPATH=../arangodb yarn test# - or - RESILIENCE_ARANGO_BASEPATH=../arangodb npm test
This runs only the resilience/failover tests, without running any other tests.
Note that these tests are generally a lot slower than the regular test suite because they involve shutting down and restarting individual ArangoDB server instances.
License
The Apache License, Version 2.0. For more information, see the accompanying LICENSE file.