DB agnostic or rethinkDB support

[carlditzler]

rfx-stack requires mongoose, and I am using feathers-rethinkdb; prefer a single DB. Enhancement supporting a flexible DB or add'l DBs would extend rfx-stack and reduce dependencies. Thanks

[foxhound87]

I used mongo as demo. Because Feathers already supports more dbs out of the box you can change the implementation easly. For example, If you want to use rethinkdb, remove all the mongo dependencies first, then:

• use the feathers-rethinkdb in /api/server.js instead of feathers-mongoosehttps://github.com/foxhound87/rfx-stack/blob/master/src/api/server.js
• in the /api/connector.js you should implement rethinkdbdash(instead of mongoose) passing to it the configs. https://github.com/foxhound87/rfx-stack/blob/master/src/api/connector.js
• in the /api/autoloader.js change the implementation here https://github.com/foxhound87/rfx-stack/blob/master/src/api/autoloader.js#L12 extending the ServiceConfig and passing the rethinkdb adapter to its Model property (rethinkdbdash will be this.adapter in your case).

You should remove the models because rethinkdbdash doesn't support a model schema. Consider using something like thinky if you want models: https://thinky.io

I will create a detailed guide.

You can follow the feathers database doc for more info on how to implement rethinkdb: http://docs.feathersjs.com/databases/rethinkdb.html

[briandpassa]

A detailed guide will be great. Thank you! 💃

[mishoboss]

+1 for DB agnostic solution guide. Personally I would like to use this stack with NeDB (as it is a pure JS solution and no binaries required) and I'm stuck now understanding all the mongo dependencies implemented.

[chriswessels]

+1. The example should include minimal dependencies, so I'd go with NeDB. It sucks having to strip out Mongo.

[Weifeng-Ying]

@chriswessels I hope this can help you. https://github.com/Weifeng-Ying/rfx-stack-NeDB/commit/ff30437a0d825b74b2b471ad67042a1cddfca85e