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JavaScript package for interacting with LabKey Server. The goal for this package is to provide a robust set of JavaScript tools for working with LabKey Servers. Our eventual hope is to have it working in the browser, on the server, and in pretty much any modern JavaScript environment. The package currently only supports use in the browser.
Written with joy in TypeScript.
v1.0 is the first stable release of the @labkey/api
package. This package is the official JavaScript API package for
LabKey Server and is included starting with LabKey Server v20.7. Release highlights:
- Replaces the original JavaScript API served under
LABKEY
global namespace on LabKey Server pages. - Universal module definition (UMD) published package targeting ES6.
- Full fidelity TypeScript definitions.
It is highly recommended you update to the 1.x version of this package as soon as possible. Any pre-1.0 releases are considered experimental and were used only for development purposes.
The easiest way to use @labkey/api is to install it from npm and bundle it with your app. Before you run install
you'll want to make sure you set the appropriate registry for the @labkey
scope.
This package is currently available on LabKey's Artifactory package registry. To include this package set the registry
in npm for the @labkey
scope. This can be done via command line using npm config
:
npm config set @labkey:registry https://labkey.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/libs-client
or via a .npmrc
file
# .npmrc
@labkey:registry=https://labkey.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/libs-client
To install using npm
npm install @labkey/api
You can then import @labkey/api in your application as follows:
import { Query, Security } from '@labkey/api';
If you would like to contribute changes to this package it is straightforward to get set up for development. First, clone this repository to a directory
git clone https://github.com/LabKey/labkey-api-js.git # or via ssh
Navigate into the package directory and run the following commands
npm install
npm run build
Now that the distribution is built you can load it up by serving the index.html file found in the package root. To
serve it up from IntelliJ you can "Open in Browser". This will let you explore the API as it is exposed via
the LABKEY
global namespace.
To make changes to this package and serve those changes from a local LabKey Server instance you can do so via the following steps:
- Build the package (as described above).
- Copy the package's
/dist
directory to/<labkey root>/server/modules/platform/core/node_modules/@labkey/api/dist
. - Navigate to
/<labkey root>/server/modules/platform/core
. - Run
npm run copy-distributions
from thecore
module directory.
Your changes will now be included in the bundle served by your local LabKey Server instance.
If you're using this package from a LabKey Server page you can verify the package version being used by opening the browser console and typing:
LABKEY.__package__
The __package__
object will contain package information such as the version of the package you're using.
// LABKEY.__package__
{
description: "JavaScript client API for LabKey Server",
name: "@labkey/api",
version: "1.0.0"
}
To publish, increment the version number in accordance with SemVer, update the CHANGELOG.md, and commit. Then from the package root run
npm publish