Awaitabase

A CLI tool that allows you to ensure a database is live before closing the process.

AWAITABASE_EXAMPLE.mov

Usage

Command Structure

# If the optionalUrl is not defined, it will default to the DATABASE_URL environment variable.
npx awaitabase [driver] [optionalUrl]

General CLI

npx awaitabase postgres postgres://user:password@localhost/database

# ⠼ Connecting to database... 0/30
# ⠼ Connecting to database... 1/30
# ✔ Database confirmed as active

Inside NPM Project

npm i -D awaitabase

// package.json
{
  // ...
  "scripts": {
    "database:wait": "awaitabase postgres postgres://user:password@localhost/database",
    "start": "database:wait && node ."
  }
  // ...
}