csv-database v0.9.2

csv-database : node.js CSV database

Lightweight CRUD database, using CSV as storage. Powered by Typescript + async/await.

Features :

• complete CRUD API with model validation
• native JS object requests
• Typescript typings
• concurrency-ready

Usage

> const db = await csvdb("users.csv", ["id","name","mail"]);

> await db.get({mail: "johndoe@github.com"});
[ {id: 1, name: "johndoe", mail: "john@github.com"} ]

> await db.add([{id: 2, name: "stevejobs", mail: "jobs@github.com"}]);

Installation

$ npm install csv-database

API Reference

• csvdb
  • .get
  • .edit
  • .add
  • .delete

csvdb(filename, model , delimiter) ⇒ Promise<CsvDatabase>

Returns a database, given a CSV file and its model.

• ; as default delimiter
• file is created if it doesn't exist

Example

const db = await csvdb("users.csv", ["id","name","mail"], ",");

db.get(predicate) ⇒ Promise<Object[]>

Returns database content. If given a predicate, returns data that matches its key-values pairs.

• empty array if nothing found
• throws an error if predicate does not match csv model

Example

> await db.get();
[
    {id: 1, name: "johndoe", mail: "john@github.com"},
    {id: 2, name: "frankmass", mail: "frankmass@github.com"}
]

> await db.get({name: "johndoe"});
[ {id: 1, name: "johndoe", mail: "john@github.com"} ]

> await db.get({name: "stevejobs"});
[ ]

db.edit(predicate, data) ⇒ Promise<Object[]>

Edits data, given a search predicate object.

• returns a list of edited occurences

Example

> await db.edit({name: "johndoe"}, {mail: "john@gitlab.com"});
[{1, "johndoe", "john@gitlab.com"}]

db.add(data) ⇒ Promise<Object[]>

Adds data (single object or array) to CSV.

• returns created occurences

Example

> await db.add({id: 3, name: "stevejobs", mail: "jobs@github.com"});
[{id: 3, name: "stevejobs", mail: "jobs@github.com"}]

db.delete(predicate) ⇒ Promise<Object[]>

Deletes all data that matches the given predicate.

• returns deleted occurences

Example

> await db.delete({id: 1});
[ {id: 1, name: "johndoe", mail: "john@github.com"} ]

Local installation

Clone the project :

$ git clone https://github.com/ysnglt/node-csvdb

This project is made using Typescript. To generate the transpiled npm package, you need to run gulp :

$ gulp

You can run the full test suite with mocha :

$ npm i && npm run test