Spaace common-lib

This repository is a Node.js package.
It is ment to be shared between all backend services.
It contains database connections, TypeORM entities, and other reused helper functions.

Usage

To install this package in target services, run:

npm i @spaace/common-lib

It can then be used as follows:

import { Database, pubsub } from '@spaace/common-lib';

await Database.initialize();
await pubsub.initialize();

// OR

import { Database } from '@spaace/common-lib/dist/database';
import { pubsub } from '@spaace/common-lib/dist/pubsub/client';

await Database.initialize();
await pubsub.initialize();

Only databases on which the service is dependendant should (and must) be initialized.

Contributing

To update this repository, update files in the src folder, then run:

npm run build

You can then push all changes to the dev branch.

To test out the changes in target services, run:

npm i git+ssh://git@github.com/avicenne-studio/spaace-common-lib.git#dev

TypeORM migrations

Because this repository contains the TypeORM database entities, it must also contain migrations for the on-chain and off-chain databases.

To automatically generate migrations, use the TypeORM CLI through the provided NPM scripts with:

npm run migration:generate:on-chain --name=<name>
# OR
npm run migration:generate:off-chain --name=<name>

Finally, before commiting, update the dist folder to add the migrations by running:

npm run build

Updating

After each change to this package merged onto the main branch, target services must be updated to use the new version.

To do so, run the following in the target services:

npm up @spaace/common-lib