API

This section describes all the individual modules and APIs of Feathers.

Core

Feathers core functionality that works on the client and the server

• Application - The main Feathers application API
• Services - Service objects and their methods and Feathers specific functionality
• Hooks - Pluggable middleware for service methods
• Events - Events sent by Feathers service methods
• Errors - A collection of error classes used throughout Feathers

Transports

Expose a Feathers application as an API server

• Configuration - A node-config wrapper to initialize configuration of a server side application.
• Koa - Feathers KoaJS framework bindings, REST API provider and error middleware.
• Express - Feathers Express framework bindings, REST API provider and error middleware.
• Socket.io - The Socket.io real-time transport provider
• Channels - Channels are used to send real-time events to clients

Authentication

Feathers authentication mechanism

• Service - The main authentication service configuration
• Hook - The hook used to authenticate service method calls
• Strategies - More about authentication strategies
• Local - Local email/password authentication
• JWT - JWT authentication
• OAuth - Using OAuth logins (Facebook, Twitter etc.)

Client

More details on how to use Feathers on the client

• Usage - Feathers client usage in Node, React Native and the browser (also with Webpack and Browserify)
• REST - Feathers client and direct REST API server usage
• Socket.io - Feathers client and direct Socket.io API server usage
• Authentication - A client for Feathers authentication

Schema

Model definitions for validating and resolving data.

• TypeBox - Integration for TypeBox, a JSON schema type builder
• JSON schema - JSON schema integration
• Validators - Schema validators and validation hooks
• Resolvers - Dynamic data resolvers

Databases

Feathers common database adapter API and querying mechanism

• Adapters - A list of supported database adapters
• Common API - Database adapter common initialization and configuration API
• Querying - The common querying mechanism
• MongoDB - The adapter for MongoDB databases
• SQL - The adapter for SQL databases using KnexJS
• Memory - The adapter for in-memory data storage