NeDB

feathers-nedb is a database adapter for NeDB, an embedded datastore with a MongoDB like API. By default NeDB persists data locally to a file. This is very useful if you do not want to run a separate database server. To use the adapter we have to install both, feathers-nedb and the nedb package itself:

$ npm install --save nedb feathers-nedb

Getting Started

The following example creates a NeDB messages service. It will create a messages.db datastore file in the db-data directory and automatically load it. If you delete that file, the data will be deleted. For a list of all the available options when creating an NeDB instance check out the NeDB documentation.

const NeDB = require('nedb');
const service = require('feathers-nedb');

// Create a NeDB instance
const db = new NeDB({
  filename: './data/messages.db',
  autoload: true
});

app.use('/messages', service({
  // Use it as the service `Model`
  Model: db,
  // Enable pagination
  paginate: {
    default: 2,
    max: 4
  }
}));

Options

The following options can be passed when creating a new NeDB service:

• Model (required) - The NeDB database instance
• paginate [optional] - A pagination object containing a default and max page size (see the Pagination chapter)

Complete Example

To run the complete NeDB example we need to install

$ npm install feathers feathers-rest feathers-socketio feathers-nedb nedb body-parser

Then add the following into app.js:

const NeDB = require('nedb');
const feathers = require('feathers');
const rest = require('feathers-rest');
const socketio = require('feathers-socketio');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const service = require('feathers-nedb');

const db = new NeDB({
  filename: './db-data/messages',
  autoload: true
});

// Create a feathers instance.
var app = feathers()
  // Enable REST services
  .configure(rest())
  // Enable Socket.io services
  .configure(socketio())
  // Turn on JSON parser for REST services
  .use(bodyParser.json())
  // Turn on URL-encoded parser for REST services
  .use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));

// Connect to the db, create and register a Feathers service.
app.use('/messages', service({
  Model: db,
  paginate: {
    default: 2,
    max: 4
  }
}));

// Create a dummy Message
app.service('messages').create({
  text: 'Oh hai!',
  complete: false
}).then(function(message) {
  console.log('Created message', message);
});

// Start the server.
const port = 3030;

app.listen(port, function() {
  console.log(`Feathers server listening on port ${port}`);
});

You can run this example from the GitHub repository with npm start and going to localhost:3030/messages. You should see an empty array. That's because you don't have any messages yet but you now have full CRUD for your new messages service.