marlinspike

Superpowers for your Sails.js Hooks.

Features

• Makes it easy to build and maintain Sails Hooks as separate projects
• Magically extend Sails apps with additional Model, Controllers, Services.

Compatibility

• Sails.js 0.12 and newer
• node.js 0.12 and newer

Install

$ npm install marlinspike --save

Usage

// config/customhook.js
export const customhook = {
  /**
   * Load hook into sails.hooks.custom
   */
  name: 'custom',

  /**
   * Load hook config into sails.hook.customHook
   */
  configKey: 'customHook',

  marlinspike: {
    /**
     * Load controllers from ../api/controllers into the parent app
     */
    controllers: true,

    /**
     * Load models from ../api/models into the parent app
     */
    models: true,

    /**
     * Load services from ../api/services into the parent app
     */
    services: true,

    /**
     * Load config from ../config/customhook.js into the parent app
     */
    config: true
  }
}

// api/hooks/customhook.js
import Marlinspike from 'marlinspike'

class CustomHook extends Marlinspike {
  defaults (overrides) {
    // http://sailsjs.org/documentation/concepts/extending-sails/hooks/hook-specification/defaults#?using-defaults-as-a-function
  },

  configure () {
    // this.sails = sails
    // http://sailsjs.org/documentation/concepts/extending-sails/hooks/hook-specification/configure
  },

  initialize (next) {
    // http://sailsjs.org/documentation/concepts/extending-sails/hooks/hook-specification/initialize
  },

  routes () {
    return {
      // http://sailsjs.org/documentation/concepts/extending-sails/hooks/hook-specification/routes
    }
  }
}

export default Marlinspike.createSailsHook(CustomHook)

License

MIT