Template module to use as a base for quickly creating bionode modules.
This provides a quick template to build a bionode module. A bionode module should follow the Unix philosophy and play nice with Node.js.
That is:
- Be small, simple and do one thing well;
- Use Node's CommonJS module pattern and be available on NPM;
- Provide Node.js Streams;
- Provide a Command Line Interface compatible with Unix pipes;
- If possible, work client-side (browser) using browserify;
- Provide testing (preferably with mocha and should);
- Provide code coverage (preferably with istanbul);
- Provide code with comments and documentation (preferably with docco);
- KISS and don't abuse objects;
- Be MIT licensed.
To try to maximize the compatibility of the new module and anticipate possible use cases, the authors of the new bionode module should be aware of the existing bionode modules and other useful projects like Dat.
The following sections should be adapted and included in the README.md file.
Install bionode-template
with npm:
$ npm install bionode-template
To use it as a command line tool, you can install it globally by adding -g
.
Alternatively, just include bionode-template.min.js
via a <script/>
in your page.
If you are using bionode-template
with Node.js, you can require the module:
var template = require('bionode-template')
template.greet('World').on('data', console.log)
//=> {"greeting":"Hello World"}
In-browser, bionode is available as a global variable.
bionode.template.greet('World').on('data', console.log)
Please read the documentation for the methods exposed by bionode-template.
$ bionode-template greet World
$ echo World | bionode-template greet
Usage with Dat
echo World | bionode-template greet | dat import --json
To contribute, clone this repo locally and commit your code on a separate branch.
Please write unit tests for your code, and check that everything works by running the following before opening a pull-request:
$ npm test
Please also check for code coverage:
$ npm run coverage
To rebuild and minify the module for the browser:
$ npm run build-browser
To rebuild the documentation using the comments in the code:
$ npm run build-docs
Check the issues for ways to contribute.
Bruno Vieira <mail@bmpvieira.com> @bmpvieira
Yannick Wurm (yannick.poulet.org) @yannick__
bionode-template is licensed under the MIT license.
Check ChooseALicense.com for details.