electron-storage

simple storage managing module for electron

Electron saves data in app.getPath("userData") folder, which is different in every os. electron-storage gives simple methods to get and set json files to this directory.

• Creates subdirectories if needed - that means you can write movies/StarWars.json as path, a movies folder will be created and a StarWars.json file inside.
• Supports callbacks and promises.
• The data inserted can be a javascript object, or stringified json.
• You don't have to write .json in the end of a file path, it will add it for you.

Installation

$ npm install --save electron-storage

usage

 
const storage = require('electron-storage');

API

get

get a json file from storage.

storage.get(filePath, cb)

storage.get(filePath, (err, data) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err)
  } else {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

storage.get(filePath)

storage.get(filePath)
.then(data => {
  console.log(data);
})
.catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

set

set a json file to storage.

storage.set(filePath, data, cb)

storage.set(filePath, data, (err) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err)
  }
});

storage.set(filePath, data)

storage.set(filePath, data)
.then(() => {
  console.log('The file was successfully written to the storage');
})
.catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

isPathExists

check if a file or directory exists.

// you have to write .json suffix for json files.
// this method works on directories as well, if you don't write `.json` suffix it checks for a directory.

storage.isPathExists(path, cb)

storage.isPathExists(path, (itDoes) => {
  if (itDoes) {
    console.log('pathDoesExists !')
  }
});

storage.isPathExists(path)

storage.isPathExists(path)
.then(itDoes => {
  if (itDoes) {
    console.log('pathDoesExists !')
  }
});

remove

remove a file or a directory from storage

storage.remove(path, cb)

storage.remove(path, err => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  }
});

storage.remove(path)

storage.remove(path)
.then(err => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  }
});

Development

npm run build for creating es5 files in dist folder

Contribute

Contributions are welcome! please open issues and pull request :)

License

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