JavaScript Driver

This package is the officially supported driver for querying a RethinkDB database from a JavaScript application. It is designed to be run in Node.js but also has an alternate http connection type that is used by the RethinkDB web ui. The http connection type is not intended to be used by applications, since it isn't secure. Ultimately, the http connection type will move into the web ui code and out of the driver.

Check out rethinkdb.com/api/javascript for documentation and examples of using this driver.

Get and compile protobuf definitions

To get and compile protobuf definitions, you should run the npm run get-proto script. This will download the proto file from rethinkdb's next branch and convert it by scripts/convert_protofile.py.

Compile coffee script

We are using a pretty outdated coffee script version right now, but to mitigate compilation issues, you can use the npm run compile command. It will compile the coffee script files for you.

Build the package

Building the package combines getting proto file and compiling coffee script source files. To build RethinkDB JavaScript driver run npm run build.

Publishing

You can use NPM's default toolchain for publishing (npm publish), but please try some scenarios with the freshly built driver before going forward. To test the driver, run at least something like this after executing node command.

var r = require('./dist/rethinkdb');
var db = 'test';
var table = 'testtable'

r.connect({db}, function(err, conn) {
    r.db(db).tableCreate(table).run(conn, function() {
        r.db(db).tableList().run(conn, console.log);
    });
});

To publish the package run npm publish dist with the appropriate credentials.