MIGRATING_FROM_CONVICT_5_TO_6.md

Migrating from Convict 5 to 6

The main goal of convict@6.0.0 was to make it have less dependencies by default, so to make it less impacted by security vulnerabilites in those dependencies. So this release introduced the following BREAKING changes:

• Multi-packages split. There are now 3 packages: convict, convict-format-with-validator, convict-format-with-moment
• Removal of the json5 dependency to make it an optional

Old pre-convict@6.0.0 code:

const convict = require('convict')

const config = convict(config_schema)

New post-convict@6.0.0 code:

const convict = require('convict')
const convict_format_with_validator = require('convict-format-with-validator')
const convict_format_with_moment = require('convict-format-with-moment')
const json5 = require('json5')

// Use this only if you use the "email", "ipaddress" or "url" format
convict.addFormats(convict_format_with_validator)

// Use this only if you use the "duration" or "timestamp" format
convict.addFormats(convict_format_with_moment)

// Use this only if you have a .json configuration file in JSON5 format
// (i.e. with comments, etc.).
convict.addParser({extension: 'json', parse: json5.parse})

const config = convict(config_schema)