Re: A JavaScript library for reading and writing to files?

I coded up an early alpha version of this

https://github.com/rwwcg/rww

To use:

var json = require('rww')('./test.json')

Adding the ('rww') will automatically propagate any changes you make in the
JSON back to the file system

It's a start, further work would be to make it multi protocol e.g.
http+file+others and allow auth with perhaps password

I would guess that could be best passed in as an options argument

PS I made a RWW Community Group github org, for coders, as we didnt seem to
have one @ https://github.com/rwwcg

On Sat, 25 Sept 2021 at 15:55, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> i had some feedback on this off-list
>
> I was pointed two two libraries to edit json config files
>
> [1] https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict
> [2] https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig
>
> also kingsley has suggested
>
> "the source code of our OSDS doesn't reveal how to write to file:, http:,
> or sparql-compliant DBMS targets? "
>
>
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/openlink-structured-data/egdaiaihbdoiibopledjahjaihbmjhdj
>
> currently I think a proxy method would be quite compelling for use cases I
> have in mind
>
> the idea would be a simple one, a library with two methods, "read" and
> "write" (to a URI) which would work over multiple protocols with various
> options (e.g for auth)
>
> I namespace for this
>
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/rww
>
> it should be multi protocol, first of all dealing with http(s): and file:
> but more could be added, basically by introspecing on the uri which would
> be a passed parameter, then as the data changes, that is propagated to
> persistent storage
>
> lmk (on or off-list) if anyone is interested in scoping out such a library
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 16:11, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Looking for a simple library here that simply reads and writes to the
>> file system
>>
>> So you import a JSON file
>>
>> Then you change it and the changes are automatically written to the file
>> system
>>
>> It would be possible to write a simple library to do this, perhaps using
>> a JS Proxy [1], but I wonder if anything exists already?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Proxy
>>
>