Database

Date 25/11/2014

Some projects need to use a database due to the need for some persistent data, such as user account information, settings and other similar things that should be kept same between different sessions.

Node.js has several modules that provide bindings to native database libraries, and some written completely in JavaScript.

npm registry itself uses CouchDB, which will be queried in the example below.

/**
 * Search latest version of the given keyword
 * matching package
 * registry-search.js
 */
'use strict';

var name = 'node-sass';
var url = 'http://registry.npmjs.com';

var util = require('util');
var nano = require('nano');

if (process.argv.length === 3) {
    name = process.argv.pop();
}

var server = nano(url);
var registry = server.use(name);

//util.puts(util.inspect(registry));

registry.get('latest', function(err, body) {
    if (err) {
        util.error(err);
    }
    //util.puts(util.inspect(body));

    util.puts('Latest version of ' + name + ' is ' + body.version);
});

Install dependencies:

Run via command line, by searching the default package name defined in line 8:

Should provide an output similar to:

Running with a package name defined via command line:

Outputs:

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