Luminous Money Typescript Client

Luminous is a personal and shared financial tool for modern humans. Its focus is on simplicity in planning your spending and saving, either as an individual or as a couple.

Other luminous codebases can be found at https://github.com/luminous-money/.

Client

This is a typescript client for interacting with the Luminous Money APIs. It is a somewhat bare-bones client and only seeks to provide some additional support around user management, error handling, logging, and other such things to make development against the Luminous REST APIs more robust.

Client API

Note: The following sections describe some of the "why" of the client API. However, a full API reference is provided further below.

Errors

The client will always convert HTTP errors into javascript errors and throw them. It uses the @wymp/http-errors library to offer errors with information that goes beyond a simple "message". Luminous APIs use this same library on the back-end to offer

Session Management

Because session management can get complicated, much of the actual work that the client does is that.

There is a specific method for logging in (login) and a specific one for logging out (logout). These methods utilize storage (passed in on instantiation) to store credentials.

There is additionally a loggedIn method that allows you to easily determine if a user is logged in or not. This method simply makes a call to the GET /accounts/v1/users/current endpoint to judge whether the current session (if existing) is live. It returns Promise<boolean>.

Finally, since session tokens can expire somewhat frequently, the client makes the credential refresh loop opaque, so you don't have to deal with it. That means that if you get a 401 error, the refresh token has expired and you must go through the login flow again.

HTTP Verb Methods

To keep things simple, we've decided to implement the rest of the client using simple HTTP verb methods instead of trying to build big object structures that have to be maintained as the API evolves. That means you still have to know the endpoints, and you still have to deal with the raw API output, which can involve not only "primary" data but included data and pagination as well.

Because this client is purpose-built for this specific API, it does provide some helper methods to assist with some of these things. For example, it provides next and prev methods that you can use to get the next and previous pages of results for a given result set. Additionally, it provides a findIncluded method that helps find results within the included section of a result set.

Client API Reference

Without further ado, following is the full client API reference. (Note that many of these defintions use types that are defined further below in the Type Definitions section.)

Session Management

createUser(name: string, email: string, password: string, passwordConf: string): Promise<void> - Creates a new user, returning an active session for the created user (assuming the creation is successful). If unsuccessful, throws and HttpError containing detailed information about the failure (via the obstructions array). You may use HttpError.isHttpError(e) to determine whether the error thrown does indeed contain the additional information.

login(email: string, password: string): Promise<LoginResult> - Takes the user's email and password and attempts to obtain a session token with it.

totp(code: string, totp: string): Promise<LoginResult> - If the login method returned a result with status 2fa, then you should ask the user for a TOTP from their auth app and submit it via this method. This method should return either success or error (not another 2fa).

logout(): Promise<void> - If the user is logged in, this submits a request to invalidate their current credentials and returns true. If we don't have any credentials saved, it simply returns true.

loggedIn(): Promise<boolean> - If the user is logged out or their credentials are expired, returns false. If they are logged in with valid credentials, returns true.

Data Methods

get<T>(endpoint: string, params?: Api.Client.CollectionParams): Promise<Exclude<Api.Response<T>, Api.ErrorResponse>> - Get data from the API for the given endpoint and with the given parameters.

post<T, I = T>(endpoint: string, data?: I): Promise<Api.SingleResponse<T>> - Create the given object at the given endpoint.

patch<T, I = T>(endpoint: string, data: Partial<I>): Promise<Api.SingleResponse<T>> - Update the given object.

delete(endpoint: string): Promise<Api.NullResponse> - Delete the given object. (Note that not all objects are deletable.)

next<T>(endpoint: string, params?: Api.Client.CollectionParams): Promise<NextableResponse<T> | null>
next<T>(params: NextableResponse<T>): Promise<NextableResponse<T> | null> - A method that can be used to get an initial result set in a format that can be passed directly to the same method to get the next page. Note that the result of this call may also be used in the prev method to get the previous page of results.

prev<T>(endpoint: string, params?: Api.Client.CollectionParams): Promise<NextableResponse<T> | null>
prev<T>(params: NextableResponse<T>): Promise<NextableResponse<T> | null> - A method that can be used to get an initial result set in a format that can be passed directly to the same method to get the previous page. Note that the result of this call may also be used in the next method to get the next page of results.

findIncluded<T>(inc: Included, spec: { id: string }): T
findIncluded<T>(inc: Included, spec: { type: string }): Array<T>
findIncluded<T>(inc: Included, spec: { id: string; type: string }): T - Attempt to find object(s) meeting the given spec within the included array of the given collection response.

Type Definitions

import { HttpError } from "@wymp/http-errors";
import { Api } from "@wymp/types";

export type LoginResult = 
  | { status: "success" }
  | { status: "2fa"; code: string }
  | { status: "error"; error: HttpError };

export type NextableResponse<T = unknown> = {
  endpoint: string;
  params?: Api.Client.CollectionParams;
  response: Api.CollectionResponse<T>;
}

export type Included = undefined | Array<{ id: string; type: string }>;

Dependencies

This library was built with an attempt to include minimal depednencies. In particular, we know that HTTP clients (fetch, axios, etc.) are both a highly personal choice and one that varies between front- and back-end systems. For this reason, we've chosen to depend on SimpleHttpClientInterface from @wymp/ts-simple-interfaces, rather than a concrete HTTP client. This means that you will have to provide a concrete implementation of SimpleHttpClientInterface on instantiation.

At the time of this writing, there are two concrete implementations:

• SimpleHttpClientAxios, based on the axios library; and
• SimpleHttpClientRpn, based on the request-promise-native library

SimpleHttpClientInterface is small, and was intended to be easy to implement, so if you prefer a different implementation, you may feel free to dress your favorite HTTP library in a wrapper that fulfills this interface.