rhockenbury / active-knex

ActiveKnex

Bringing the awesomeness of knex one step closer to ActiveRecord!

NOTE: While I think Bookshelf is a great project, it has the same annoyances that Backbone has where it puts a whole bunch of stuff that I don't want in and around my data. I want a raw Javascript Object!

Using ActiveKnex

var ActiveKnex = require('active-knex');
var knex = require('knex')(knexConfig);

// Create your very own Schema right on top of your existing knex object
var MySchema = ActiveKnex.Schema.create(knex, {
  tableName: 'table_name',
  // Everything else!
});

Relations

Want to load associations into your data object before you res.json? This is for you!

Define a Relation in your Schema

var Player = ActiveKnex.Schema.create(knex, {
  tableName: 'players',

  relations: {
    players: function() {
      var Player = require('./player');
      return ActiveKnex.Relation.HasMany({
        model: Player,
        foreignKey: 'team_id'
      });
    }
  }
});

###Load association data right into your Object

var team = {id: 1};
Team.load(team, 'players').then(function(team) {
  team.players; // Array of players
});

##Testing

To run the tests

npm install
mocha

More Documentation To Come!