Add NPM libraries
You can write the task using just plain javascript but more often than not, you may want to use a third party library to make your life easier. For example, if you are dealing with time conversion and timzones, you may want to use dayjs. This way you don't need to re-invent the wheel and you can use widely used & properly tested libraries to do the job for you.
In the task editor, you can see the "dependencies" section on the left.
Click on "Add dependency", then you can search for the NPM package you want to install. Currently, only the latest version are available for install.
Note that the dependencies are added on the app level, so if you add package A to one task, it is immediately available to all the other tasks in the same app.
Adding node libraries will increase the memory consumption of the task run. So make sure to only add libraries that you are using.
Certain app integrations may require a library in order to properly make API calls/interact. For example, with mongo integration requires
mongodb library. See Shypyard SDK for more details.Purpose | Libraries |
Making HTTP request | Axios, Request, node-fetch, got |
General Utility | lodash |
Time | Day.js, Moment.js, moment-timezone |
Templates | Handlebars, liquid, EJS |
Database | Mysql, MongoDB, redis, pg |
Compression | zlip |
FTP | SFTP |
Email | Nodemailer |
Security | jsonwebtoken |
Generate unique ID | uuid |
PDF | pdfkit |
In-memory filesystem | memfs |
Validation | joi, validator.js |
Image transform | Sharp |
Note that Shypyard by default already comes with
axios. You can access it this way:const { libs } = require('platform');
const http = libs.http.get();
// http.get(...)
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