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Shane
Shane

Reputation: 5151

extending controllers with raw js files in sailjs

I'm using "sails": "~0.10.5" and I'm making a controller / webservice that takes get and post. Everything's fine, but I want to bring in a couple of js files I'd written earlier for processing uploaded csv's. I created a src folder on the root of my sails.js project that require a few modules, etc. I'm wondering is this the "sails.js way" of adding util / helper files?

Should I go through the extra steps of making them an npm module or is that overkill?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (1)

MrVinz
MrVinz

Reputation: 874

Yes there is :

Those file/library have to be added in api/services/ folder and be "ES6 modules"

for example create a file api/services/Hello.js

// say hello
module.exports = {

    hello: function(name){
      sails.log.warn("Hello was called !"); //not a good log ...  
      return "hello" + name + sails.config.local.helloconf; //you can then access configs and some other sails native functions;
    }
};

in your controller you can then simply do something like Hello.hello("bob");

Upvotes: 1

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