Figs—config management!
What is it?
Provides config inheritance & overriding in a plethora of ways!
What ways are those?
First of all, I want to say overriding will MERGE objects, not clobber the old one with the new one. Also, the following are listed from lowest precedence to highest.
Config inheritance
This will allow you to inherit & override configs in parent directories.
This is useful if you want to share a config between multiple projects.
For example:
/home/subc/ringer.io/config.json
/home/subc/ringer.io/frontend/config.json
Result:
Local config overriding
We'll next load any config.local.js
and config.local.json
configs!
Inheritance also works with these local configs too.
This is useful if you want to override things in your repo without committing them.
/home/subc/ringer.io/frontend/config.json
/home/subc/ringer.io/frontend/config.local.json
Result:
Parent directory clobbering
Finally, you can club children by creating a config.js
or config.json
in
a parent directory. This works in the exact opposite of the config inheritance,
think of it as seniority.
This is useful for when you're working on multiple projects, and you want to clobber all those mofos at once, and you're too lazy to use an environment variable.
For example:
/home/subc/ringer.io/frontend/config.json
/home/subc/clobber.json
Result:
Passed overriding config
You can also load a config by setting CONFIG="/home/subc/ringer.io-override.js"
in
your environment before starting the Node.js process.
This is useful for production, so we can specify production configurations.
Passed overriding ENVs
You can override any property with a string by passing in a ENV variable which maps to a key in the object.
This is useful for production, if you're too lazy to add the override to a file.
To map a key to an ENV variable, replace .
with __
, and prepend it with
CONFIG_
.
Passing true
, false
will set booleans! Otherwise it will set the string you pass.
For example:
CONFIG_domain__ringer_www__host="dev.ringer.io.com"
CONFIG_debug="true"
Result:
Command line inspector tool
To use the tool, install this library globally with NPM:
$ npm install -g figs
Usage
Use: figs [-opts] [directory]
Arguments:
directory inspect from the specified directory
Options:
--help, -h this message
--list, -l all configs in the inheritance chain
--view, -v full stack trace of all the configs & contents
--json, -j View the raw JSON
Node.js Usage
Require figs directly into your config variable.
// config.jsexportsdebug = true; // app.jsvar config = ; console;
Front-end Usage
Simply pass the config object into browserify, and this will build the state of your config into your browserify bundle at the time of compilation.
// bundlingbrowserify; // front-endvar config = ;
You can also call figs
with an object to return a Browserify plugin mounting
that as your config in the front end. This will wash your configuration
to only include a subset of your configuration. Because I'm sure you have
secret keys in your config.
var config = ; var bundle = ; bundle;
You can also use it from the browserify tool.
$ browserify --plugin figs
License
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Ryan Munro <ryan@subc.io>
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