jsondown/README.md

A drop-in replacement for LevelDOWN that writes to a JSON file on disk

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This is a drop-in replacement for [LevelDOWN][] that writes to
a JSON file on disk.

It also retains the contents of the entire JSON file in memory, so
it's only really useful for debugging purposes and/or very small
data stores that need just a pinch of persistence.

## Example

```js
var levelup = require('levelup');
var db = levelup('./mydata.json', { db: require('jsondown') });

db.put('foo', 'bar');
```

## Alternative Runtimes

In addition to NodeJS, JsonDOWN can be used on the [RuntimeJS][]
javascript unikernel. Additional details are provided in the `guides`
section of this repositiory.

  [LevelDOWN]: https://github.com/rvagg/node-leveldown
  [RuntimeJS]: https://github.com/runtimejs/runtime