Use Nuts as a node module

Nuts can be integrated into a Node.JS application as a node module. Using the middleware, you can add custom authentication on downloads or analytics for downloads counts.

Installation

Nuts can be installed as a local dependency using npm:

$ npm install nuts-serve

Usage

var express = require('express');
var Nuts = require('nuts-serve').Nuts;

var app = express();

var nuts = Nuts({
    // GitHub configuration
    repository: "Me/MyRepo",
    token: "my_api_token"
});

app.use('/myapp', nuts.router);
app.listen(4000);

Configuration

• cache: (string) Path to the cache folder, default value is a temprary folder
• cacheMax: (int) Max size of the cache (default is 500MB)
• cacheMaxAge: (int) Maximum age in ms (default is 1 hour)
• preFetch: (boolean) Pre-fetch list of releases at startup (default is true)

GitHub specific configuration:

• refreshSecret: (string) Secret for the GitHub webhook

Hooks

You can bind interceptors (i.e. hooks) to certain asynchronous actions using nuts.before(fn) and nuts.after(fn):

• download: When an user is downloading a version
• api: when an user is accessing the API

nuts.before('download', function(download, next) {
    console.log('user is downloading', download.platform.filename, "for version", download.version.tag, "on channel", download.version.channel, "for", download.platform.type);

    next();
});

nuts.after('download', function(download, next) {
    console.log('user downloaded', download.platform.filename, "for version", download.version.tag, "on channel", download.version.channel, "for", download.platform.type);

    next();
});