v0.4.0

New features

Version 0.4.0 is a complete rewrite of the project in order to achieve:

• Better fault tolerancy
  • Writing is now atomic. Even if your process crashes, you won't have half written corrupted JSON files.
• Better asynchronism
  • Writing is now fully asynchronous.
• Better flexibility
  • Custom functions and third-party libraries can now be added using low.mixin().
  • Underscore.db dependency was removed, LowDB is now pure Lo-Dash. Underscore.db can still be added though using low.mixin().
• Better API
  • Database is now automatically loaded when calling low(filename)
• Multiple database support
  • You can work with multiple JSON files.

Breaking changes

During the process, some compromises needed to be made. Here's the list of the breaking changes:

• API

v0.3.x

var low = require('lowdb').load() // loads db.json (by default)
var posts = low('posts').sortBy('title').value()

v0.4.0

var low = require('lowdb')
var db = low('db.json') // loads db.json (must be explicit)

var posts = db('posts').sortBy('title').value()

• Events

Removed to simplify code. You can use Watch.js to monitor database object or similar projects.

Also Object.observe() will be available in Node 0.12, so it's just a matter of time before you can have database object events back.

• options

Removed. Use low() instead.

var db = low()          // same as autoSave: false
var db = low('db.json') // same as autoSave: true and path: 'db.json'

• short syntax

Removed. Short syntax was mainly an experiment. If you need it back, please create an issue.

• Underscore.db methods

Underscore.db dependency was removed. You can use Lo-Dash methods to query or manipulate data like push(), where(), ... instead of insert(), get(), ...

Or you can use mixin() to add Underscore.db back .

See README for informations about how to extend LowDB.

v0.3.1

Initial public release.