confu v0.0.3

confu is a simplistic config parser for node.js

Installation: npm install confu

Usage: var config = require('confu')(__dirname, '../', 'config.json');

Also see example.js and config.json in the package

Why is this even useful?

Well, if you have a 'paths' hash in your config object, paths are resolved and normalized, relatively to the path of your config file, so you don't have to do it yourself. Also shamelessly adds a paths.root and paths.config path for convenience.

So, in short, put your 'public', 'views' etc. paths in a 'paths' hash.

Also saves you the trouble of requiring 'fs' and 'path' just to read a config file if you don't need them anywhere else.

Example config.json:

{ "name": "myapp" , "host": "localhost" , "port": 80 , "paths": { "public": "./public" , "views": "./views" , "absolute": "/path/to/absolute/thing" } }

In your app 'config' will look like:

{ name: 'myapp', host: 'localhost', port: 80, paths: { public: '/cygdrive/h/work/node/repos/confu/public', views: '/cygdrive/h/work/node/repos/confu/views', absolute: '/path/to/absolute/thing', root: '/cygdrive/h/work/node/repos/confu', config: '/cygdrive/h/work/node/repos/confu/config.json' } }