How to persist data in an Electron app?

Question

I've been scouring the Electron documentation to try and figure out how to persist data in an Electron app. For example, in iOS or OS X, you could use NSUserDefaults to store user settings and preferences. I would like to do something similar. How can I persist data in an Electron app?

Answer 1

NeDB is the only suggested or featured tool as an embedded persistent database for Electron by Electron, currently. - http://electron.atom.io/community/

It's also could be useful to store user settings if settings are complex.

Why NeDB could be a better solution on this case?

Embedded persistent or in memory database for Node.js, nw.js, Electron and browsers, 100% JavaScript, no binary dependency. API is a subset of MongoDB's and it's plenty fast. - NeDB

Creating or loading a database:

var Datastore = require('nedb')   , db = new Datastore({ filename: 'path/to/datafile', autoload: true }); // You can issue commands right away 

Inserting a document:

var doc = { hello: 'world'                , n: 5                , today: new Date()                , nedbIsAwesome: true                , notthere: null                , notToBeSaved: undefined  // Will not be saved                , fruits: [ 'apple', 'orange', 'pear' ]                , infos: { name: 'nedb' }                };  db.insert(doc, function (err, newDoc) {   // Callback is optional   // newDoc is the newly inserted document, including its _id   // newDoc has no key called notToBeSaved since its value was undefined }); 

Finding documents:

// Finding all inhabited planets in the solar system db.find({ system: 'solar', inhabited: true }, function (err, docs) {   // docs is an array containing document Earth only }); 

The list goes on...

Update - September 2019

As of 2019, this is no longer the valid answer. See the answers of @jviotti and @Tharanga below.

Answer 2

There is an NPM module I wrote called electron-json-storage that is meant to abstract this out and provide a nice and easy interface to the developer.

The module internally reads/writes JSON to/from app.getPath('userData'):

const storage = require('electron-json-storage');  // Write storage.set('foobar', { foo: 'bar' }).then(function() {      // Read     storage.get('foobar').then(function(object) {         console.log(object.foo);         // will print "bar"     });  });