Proof-of-concept to download a file from a URL and save it locally. For example, I may wish to retrieve a JAR file from Nexus.
Uses the http package, which does the basics with raw HTTP protocol support.
Possible update: use request, it is like the Python's requests library. There is a companion package called node-request-progress that tracks download progress. See request-progress on GitHub.
Note: The request package has been deprecated.
One of Apexlab's strategic partners, Olvasoegylet.io sent us a request for a book catalog application. They would like to have a public collection of books for their customers. You are the chosen one who may write POC (proof of concept) purely back-end (Node) JavaScript (Typescript) application which they could use to provide data for their various mobile application eg.: Book Renter.
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # line endings must be \n, not \r\n ! | |
| # Writes JS code which opens object literal and assigns it to the global window object. | |
| # Reads each line of .env file and splits into key/value pair. | |
| # Looks for the environment variable, if set, uses its value, otherwise, uses the default value from .env file. | |
| # Removes all carriage returns (\r) | |
| # Append it to object that we assigned to global window object. | |
| # Close object literal | |
| echo "window.env = {" > ./env-config.js |