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Dependency Manager

The Dependency Manager is kind of a Swiss-Army knife of useful interrelated tools. It is exposed throughout Co.Koa; Controllers, Bootstrap, Middleware, Models (and their) Validators, Services and middleware all have access to the Dependency Manager courtesy of the supplied $ parameter.

The Dependency Manager breaks down into 2 use categories:

• Dynamic Resources
• Static Resources

DynamicResources

The DependencyManager knows how to find Services, Models and Validators within their respective folders. the example below demonstrates the syntax:

const sampleService = $('SampleService'); // load an instance of SampleService in ./api/services/SampleService.js
const Sample = $('Sample') // call a Mongoose model instance derived from the Sample schema in ./api/models/Sample.js
const SampleValidator = $('SampleValidator') // call a validator library for your mongoose instance from ./api/models/validators/SampleValidator.js

Adding Custom Dependencies to the Dependency Manager

as of @1.8.0, Co.Koa supports the use of custom dependencies via the Dependency Register within your project’s config.json. more information on custom dependencies can be found in the Config Documentation.

const yourDependencyHere = $('YourDependencyHere');

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Static Resources

prefixing your argument string with ':' tells Co.Koa you are requesting a static resource of some kind. The following resources are available:

$(':async')	Exposes await/async-friendly .each() and .reduce() methods.
$(':echo')	Exposes the echo-handler NPM module
$(':builder')	returns the co-koa-core's builder tool for iterating through files. This is an invaluable tool for handling custom database implementations in your plugins. See the [index.js](https://github.com/jaysaurus/co-koa-mongoose-plugin/blob/master/index.js) of the co-koa-mongoose-plugin to get a feel for how it works.
$(':enums')	returns ./api/Enums.js
$(':tree')	returns a stack-tree algorithm that can be used to iterate through object trees.
$(':html') $(':css') $(':img') $(':js')	returns an object containing the methods .stream(filename) (under the hood this employs fs.createReadStream()) and .loadURL(fileName). You can add more static assets to this list via the AssetConfig.js.

more information on Static Resources can be found here