The first alpha of the official JavaScript driver arangojs‘ upcoming major release is now available on npm.

Version 4 streamlines the driver’s API by removing unnecessary server roundtrips to obtain references to collections and graphs that already exist:

Before:

var db = require('arangojs')();
db.collection('users')
.then(function(collection) {
 return collection.import(allTheUsers)
})
.then(function() {
 return db.collection('blogs')
})
.then(function(collection) {
 return collection.import(allTheBlogs);
})
.then(function() {
 return db.collection('articles')
})
.then(function(collection) {
 return collection.import(allTheArticles);
})
.then(handleSuccess)
.catch(handleErrors);

After:

var db = require('arangojs')();
db.collection('users').import(allTheUsers)
.then(function() {
 return db.collection('blogs').import(allTheBlogs);
})
.then(function() {
 return db.collection('articles').import(allTheArticles);
})
.then(handleSuccess)
.catch(handleErrors);

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ArangoJS, the official ArangoDB JavaScript client, has been updated to version 3.7.0. The new release features significant performance improvements in Node.js and io.js. The dependency on the third-party request module has been replaced with a thin wrapper around node’s own http module, bringing a 3-4x performance improvement for consecutive requests by maintaining a connection pool.

The earlier 3.5 release also added optional support for ES6 promises. While ArangoJS does not provide a promise implementation itself, all asynchronous methods now return promises in JavaScript environments that support them – whether natively (e.g. in io.js or modern browsers) or using a polyfill like es6-promise.

The latest version of ArangoJS is available on NPM and GitHub.