seed-mongoose

DRY data seeding for mongoose.

Simplify mongoose data seeding based on the current running environment of your application. You may use seed-mongoose during test, development and even seed your application with default data during deployment in production environment.

Installation

$ npm install --save seed-mongoose

You may opt to install Faker as your test and development seed generator

$ npm install --save-dev faker

Usage

require('seed-mongoose')();
var mongoose = require('mongoose');

...

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/myapp');

Note!: You must require seed-mongoose before mongoose, as it uses mongoose connection events to auto seed data.

How it works

By default seed-mongoose look for environment specific seeds in the seeds directory inside process.cwd() of your application. Example, if you need to seed your application during test you will have to create seeds/test and add model seed files inside it.

seed-mongoose will load any file suffix-ed with Seed as a seed. Example, if you want to seed your User model during test your need to write your seed as folow:

//in seeds/test/UserSeed.js
var faker = require('faker');

//array of plain object
//to seed in User model
module.exports = [{
    username: faker.internet.userName(),
    email: faker.internet.email()
}];

When connecting event fired by mongoose connection, seed-mongoose will then apply all data seed available for the current application environment .

Seed Types

seed-mongoose accept array type, plain object and functional type seeds.

Object Seed Type

//in seeds/test/UserSeed.js
var faker = require('faker');

//object to seed
//in User model
module.exports = {
    username: faker.internet.userName(),
    email: faker.internet.email()
};

Array Seed Type

//in seeds/test/UserSeed.js
var faker = require('faker');

//array of data to seed
module.exports = [{
    username: faker.internet.userName(),
    email: faker.internet.email()
}];

Functional Seed Type

//in seeds/test/UserSeed.js
var faker = require('faker');

//function to be evaluated to obtain data
module.exports = function(done) {

    var data = [{
        username: faker.internet.userName(),
        email: faker.internet.email()
    }, {
        username: faker.internet.userName(),
        email: faker.internet.email()
    }];

    //remember to tell when your are done
    done(null, data);
};

The same convection must be followed for development and production environment.

Note: Environment specific folder are named after their environment name, e.g if environment is test, then to make sure your test seeds are loaded they must be placed under seeds/test folder for seed-mongoose to pick and apply your seeds. Your may look this repo seeds folder to see example

Configuration

seed-mongoose accept application defined configurations.

Simply, pass the config object into it as below:

var seed = require('seed-mongoose')({
            cwd: 'data',
            path: 'fixtures',
            logger:console,
            environment: 'development',
            active: false
        });
var mongoose = require('mongoose');

...

cwd current project working directory. Default to process.cwd()
path seed path relative to cwd. Default to seeds
logger logger to be used to log progress. Default to console
environment seeding environment. Default to process.env.NODE_ENV
active signal whether seeding if enable. Default to true

Testing

Clone this repository
Install grunt-cli global

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Install all development dependencies

$ npm install

Then run test

$ npm test

Contribute

Fork this repo and push in your ideas. Do not forget to add a bit of test(s) of what value you adding.

Licence

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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