Packev

Packev is a monitoring tool that emits an event everytime a new package is updated or created in NPM.

Usage

var packev = require('packev');
var options = {
    interval : 3000
};
var monitor = new packev(options);

monitor.on('data', function(package){
    console.log('New package in NPM: ', package.name);
});

monitor.on('error', function(err){
    throw err;
});

// All setted up, let's start the monitor
monitor.start();

Methods

• on(event, callback) register a callback for an event.
• start() starts the monitor.
• stop() stops the monitor.
• status a string containing the current status, can be running or stopped

Events

• data fired when a new/updated package is found, its callback receives the package object.
• error when something whent wront, it's fired, its callback receives a error object.
• cicle emitted when a checking cicle has ended.
• stop emitted when the check engine has stoped, after calling stop().
• start emitted when the check engine has started, after calling start().

Options

• interval set the interval in miliseconds to check for new packages. Default is 5000.
• start time in miliseconds to be removed from the first check time. This way we can fetch older updates. Default is 5000.
• filter a function that receives the package object and can be used to filter what packages will be emitted, returning true or false. Default is null.
• endpoint the url fom where the package check will run.
• fullPackage a boolean to allow or not the full package information to be fetched, default is false.

TODO

• Tests
• Documentation
• In-code documentantion

Licence (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Cranic Tecnologia e Informática LTDA

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