victorb / trymodule

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Allow for default session values to be specified #12

Open aweary opened 8 years ago

aweary commented 8 years ago

So I had the same idea for this module a while ago (great job btw!) and one of the things I wanted to do was allow for packages to allow a default session, meaning they could pre-define a few variables in their package.json file or somewhere else and that JSON would also be attached to the global object in the REPL section.

So say you have something like selectn and you want to test it. Instead of having to manually type in dummy data the package manager could add something to their package.json (or something) like:

...
"try": {
  "addresses":  [
  {"first": "blah blah blah"},
  {"second": "blah blah blah" }
 ]
}

And that would be parsed and loaded in just like the module itself.

victorb commented 8 years ago

Ah, this is a interesting idea, we can also hook into the tonic-dev values if they exist in the repository (http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/10/28/npm-plus-tonic.html)

I say yes to this!