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# lowdb [](https://www.npmjs.org/package/lowdb) [](https://github.com/typicode/lowdb/actions/workflows/node.js.yml)
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> Simple to use type-safe local JSON database 🦉
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Read or create `db.json`
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```js
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const db = await JSONFilePreset('db.json', { posts: [] })
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```
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Update data using `Array.prototype.*` and automatically write to `db.json`
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```js
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const post = { id: 1, title: 'lowdb is awesome', views: 100 }
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await db.update(({ posts }) => posts.push(post))
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```
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```js
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// db.json
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{
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"posts": [
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{ "id": 1, "title": "lowdb is awesome", "views": 100 }
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]
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}
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```
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In the same spirit, query using native `Array.prototype.*`
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```js
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const { posts } = db.data
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const first = posts.at(0)
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const results = posts.filter((post) => post.title.includes('lowdb'))
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const post1 = posts.find((post) => post.id === 1)
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const sortedPosts = posts.toSorted((a, b) => a.views - b.views)
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```
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It's that simple.
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## Sponsors
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<br>
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<br>
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<p align="center">
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<a href="https://mockend.com/" target="_blank">
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<img src="https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/mockend.svg" height="70px">
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</a>
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</p>
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<br>
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<br>
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[Become a sponsor and have your company logo here](https://github.com/sponsors/typicode) 👉 [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/typicode)
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## Features
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- **Lightweight**
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- **Minimalist**
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- **TypeScript**
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- **Plain JavaScript**
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- Safe atomic writes
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- Hackable:
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- Change storage, file format (JSON, YAML, ...) or add encryption via [adapters](#adapters)
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- Extend it with lodash, ramda, ... for super powers!
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- Automatically switches to fast in-memory mode during tests
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## Install
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```sh
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npm install lowdb
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```
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## Usage
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_Lowdb is a pure ESM package. If you're having trouble using it in your project, please [read this](https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3ecc99d99c)._
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```js
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import { JSONFilePreset } from 'lowdb/node'
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// Read or create db.json
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const defaultData = { posts: [] }
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const db = await JSONFilePreset('db.json', defaultData)
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// Update db.json
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await db.update(({ posts }) => posts.push('hello world'))
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// Alternatively you can call db.write() explicitely later
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// to write to db.json
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db.data.posts.push('hello world')
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await db.write()
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```
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```js
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// db.json
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{
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"posts": [ "hello world" ]
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}
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```
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### TypeScript
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You can use TypeScript to check your data types.
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```ts
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type Data = {
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messages: string[]
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}
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const defaultData: Data = { messages: [] }
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const db = await JSONPreset<Data>('db.json', defaultData)
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db.data.messages.push('foo') // ✅ Success
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db.data.messages.push(1) // ❌ TypeScript error
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```
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### Lodash
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You can extend lowdb with Lodash (or other libraries). To be able to extend it, we're not using `JSONPreset` here. Instead, we're using lower components.
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```ts
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import { Low } from 'lowdb'
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import { JSONFile } from 'lowdb/node'
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import lodash from 'lodash'
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type Post = {
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id: number
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title: string
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}
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type Data = {
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posts: Post[]
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}
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// Extend Low class with a new `chain` field
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class LowWithLodash<T> extends Low<T> {
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chain: lodash.ExpChain<this['data']> = lodash.chain(this).get('data')
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}
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const defaultData: Data = {
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posts: [],
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}
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const adapter = new JSONFile<Data>('db.json', defaultData)
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const db = new LowWithLodash(adapter)
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await db.read()
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// Instead of db.data use db.chain to access lodash API
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const post = db.chain.get('posts').find({ id: 1 }).value() // Important: value() must be called to execute chain
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```
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### CLI, Server, Browser and in tests usage
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See [`src/examples/`](src/examples) directory.
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## API
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### Presets
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Lowdb provides four presets for common cases.
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- `JSONFilePreset(filename, defaultData)`
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- `JSONFileSyncPreset(filename, defaultData)`
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- `LocalStoragePreset(name, defaultData)`
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- `SessionStoragePreset(name, defaultData)`
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See [`src/examples/`](src/examples) directory for usage.
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Lowdb is extremely flexible, if you need to extend it or modify its behavior, use the classes and adapters below instead of the presets.
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### Classes
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Lowdb has two classes (for asynchronous and synchronous adapters).
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#### `new Low(adapter, defaultData)`
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```js
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import { Low } from 'lowdb'
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import { JSONFile } from 'lowdb/node'
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const db = new Low(new JSONFile('file.json'), {})
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await db.read()
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await db.write()
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```
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#### `new LowSync(adapterSync, defaultData)`
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```js
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import { LowSync } from 'lowdb'
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import { JSONFileSync } from 'lowdb/node'
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const db = new LowSync(new JSONFileSync('file.json'), {})
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db.read()
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db.write()
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```
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### Methods
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#### `db.read()`
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Calls `adapter.read()` and sets `db.data`.
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**Note:** `JSONFile` and `JSONFileSync` adapters will set `db.data` to `null` if file doesn't exist.
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```js
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db.data // === null
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db.read()
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db.data // !== null
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```
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#### `db.write()`
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Calls `adapter.write(db.data)`.
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```js
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db.data = { posts: [] }
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db.write() // file.json will be { posts: [] }
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db.data = {}
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db.write() // file.json will be {}
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```
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#### `db.update(fn)`
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Calls `fn()` then `db.write()`.
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```js
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db.update((data) => {
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// make changes to data
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// ...
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})
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// files.json will be updated
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```
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### Properties
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#### `db.data`
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Holds your db content. If you're using the adapters coming with lowdb, it can be any type supported by [`JSON.stringify`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify).
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For example:
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```js
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db.data = 'string'
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db.data = [1, 2, 3]
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db.data = { key: 'value' }
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```
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## Adapters
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### Lowdb adapters
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#### `JSONFile` `JSONFileSync`
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Adapters for reading and writing JSON files.
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```js
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import { JSONFile, JSONFileSync } from 'lowdb/node'
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new Low(new JSONFile(filename), {})
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new LowSync(new JSONFileSync(filename), {})
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```
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#### `Memory` `MemorySync`
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In-memory adapters. Useful for speeding up unit tests. See [`src/examples/`](src/examples) directory.
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```js
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import { Memory, MemorySync } from 'lowdb'
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new Low(new Memory(), {})
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new LowSync(new MemorySync(), {})
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```
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#### `LocalStorage` `SessionStorage`
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Synchronous adapter for `window.localStorage` and `window.sessionStorage`.
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```js
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import { LocalStorage, SessionStorage } from 'lowdb/browser'
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new LowSync(new LocalStorage(name), {})
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new LowSync(new SessionStorage(name), {})
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```
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### Utility adapters
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#### `TextFile` `TextFileSync`
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Adapters for reading and writing text. Useful for creating custom adapters.
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#### `DataFile` `DataFileSync`
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Adapters for easily supporting other data formats or adding behaviors (encrypt, compress...).
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```js
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import { DataFile } from 'lowdb'
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new DataFile(filename, {
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parse: YAML.parse,
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stringify: YAML.stringify
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})
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new DataFile(filename, {
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parse: (data) => { decypt(JSON.parse(data)) },
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stringify: (str) => { encrypt(JSON.stringify(str)) }
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})
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```
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### Third-party adapters
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If you've published an adapter for lowdb, feel free to create a PR to add it here.
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### Writing your own adapter
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You may want to create an adapter to write `db.data` to YAML, XML, encrypt data, a remote storage, ...
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An adapter is a simple class that just needs to expose two methods:
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```js
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class AsyncAdapter {
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read() {
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/* ... */
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} // should return Promise<data>
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write(data) {
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/* ... */
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} // should return Promise<void>
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}
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class SyncAdapter {
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read() {
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/* ... */
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} // should return data
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write(data) {
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/* ... */
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} // should return nothing
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}
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```
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For example, let's say you have some async storage and want to create an adapter for it:
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import { api } from './AsyncStorage'
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class CustomAsyncAdapter {
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// Optional: your adapter can take arguments
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constructor(args) {
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// ...
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}
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async read() {
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const data = await api.read()
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return data
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}
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async write(data) {
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await api.write(data)
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}
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}
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const adapter = new CustomAsyncAdapter()
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const db = new Low(adapter)
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```
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See [`src/adapters/`](src/adapters) for more examples.
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#### Custom serialization
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To create an adapter for another format than JSON, you can use `TextFile` or `TextFileSync`.
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For example:
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```js
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import { Adapter, Low } from 'lowdb'
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import { TextFile } from 'lowdb/node'
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import YAML from 'yaml'
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class YAMLFile {
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constructor(filename) {
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this.adapter = new TextFile(filename)
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}
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async read() {
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const data = await this.adapter.read()
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if (data === null) {
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return null
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} else {
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return YAML.parse(data)
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}
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}
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write(obj) {
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return this.adapter.write(YAML.stringify(obj))
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}
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}
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const adapter = new YAMLFile('file.yaml')
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const db = new Low(adapter)
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```
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## Limits
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Lowdb doesn't support Node's cluster module.
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If you have large JavaScript objects (`~10-100MB`) you may hit some performance issues. This is because whenever you call `db.write`, the whole `db.data` is serialized using `JSON.stringify` and written to storage.
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Depending on your use case, this can be fine or not. It can be mitigated by doing batch operations and calling `db.write` only when you need it.
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If you plan to scale, it's highly recommended to use databases like PostgreSQL or MongoDB instead.
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