caldav in JavaScript; made easy.

The caldav and ICS specifications are large. Additionally, I'm not sure I ever want to implement them completely. But I saw the need to a simple module that works with e.g. radicale and provides decent developer experience. simple-caldav is that attempt.

$ npm i --save simple-caldav

const SimpleCalDAV = require("simple-caldav");
const URI = "https://example.com/cal/";

const dav = new SimpleCalDAV(URI, { credentials: "include", mode: "cors"});
const evt = dav.getEvent("abc")
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.log);

For now, see tests.

• We translate a VEVENT's STATUS & LOCATION in the whole library to the name _status & _location to make sure we're not violating any reserved words rules of JavaScript.
• When initializing new SimpleCalDAV fetch request options can be supplied on the second parameter (type object).

When using simple-caldav in combination with a remote server and CORS starts to become an issue, make sure you allow the following CORS properties:

• methods that need to be allowed: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, REPORT, PROPFIND, OPTIONS
• headers that need to be allowed: Content-Type, If-None-Match, Depth

$ git clone [email protected]:TimDaub/simple-caldav.git
$ cd simple-caldav && npm i
$ npm run test

The process outlined in PUBLISH.md SHOULD be followed when releasing a new version of simple-caldav.

• Add ;LANGUAGE=locale to VEVENT & VALARM description, summary, location. Function interfaces and return values have changed therefore. Instead of strings, an object of the shape { value: "string, language: "locale"} is now required. The language prop is optional.
• In some cases subject was wrongly used instead of summary. All occurrences have been changed to summary.
• Some internal code now uses optional chaining, which is why node requires a version > 14 now.

• Bump a few dependencies' versions to fix vulnerabilities

• Instead of passing fetch's credentials option as "include" by default, it's now possible to add fetch request options when initializing the SimpleCalDAV class.
• credentials: "include" aren't passed as default anymore.

• For all fetch requests, allow passing credentials by using credentials: true
• Add note on CORS

• Remove xpath and xmldom dependencies for smaller builds.
• Remove getETags method.

• Upgrade xmldom to v0.5.0

• Add static applyDuration(date, duration) that allows applying an specifically-shaped duration to a JavaScript Date.

• Add VALUE=DATE-TIME to absolute-time trigger in VALARM.
• Add support for relative triggers. RELATED= syntax not yet supported.

• When updating an event, alarm's attendee would wrongly collect action prefixes like mailto: or sms:, e.g. mailto:mailto:mailto:[email protected].

• Include href to event when calling getEvent or listEvents.

• Add LOCATION property to VEVENT.
• Add ORGANIZER;CN=:mailto property to VEVENT.

• Fix UTC time zone shift calculation in formatDateTime.

• Switched out moment.js with date-fns. Breaking change is that formatDateTime now only accepts Date objects, or throws otherwise.

• Bug fix: When adding multiple alarms, ,BEGIN:VALARM would show up in VEVENT text.

• Bug fix: When adding a status to an event, in its ical representation status statement didn't add new \n new line instruction.

• Add static SimpleCalDAV.extractUid(href) method.

• Add _status property to event.

• Bug fix: syncCollection wasn't able to detect a single VEVENT deletion event and simply returned an empty array.

• Bug fix: Stop attempting to parse relative-time VALARMS, as ical.js isn't capable of doing that either. Relative-time VALARMS are now ignored instead. Previously they threw.

• Bug fix: Ensure correct order of etag and href properties returned from syncCollection.

• Introduce new method for retrieving single events with uid: getEvent(uid).
• Parse and include VALARMs in getEvent and listEvents.

• Removed TraversalError from code base entirely.
• listEvents now returns an empty array when no events are found or an invalid xml gets passed.
• Instead of throwing TraversalError, SimpleCalDAV.traverseXML now returns an empty array when path couldn't be found.
• Added getSyncToken method to retrieve a sync token from a server.
• Added syncCollection to receive a diff of an entire collection with a sync token.
• Added ServerError that is thrown when there are problems with the server.

• Fix bug in VALARM construction.

• Fix bug in VEVENT construction.

• Allow adding VALARMS to VEVENTS.

• Transform ical.js events to simple JSON objects and all customizable transformation parameter on listEvents method.

• Initial release.

[WIP]

• 1: Building a CalDAV Client
• 2: Radicale 3.0 Documentation: Command line client
• 3: iCalendar Validator
• 4: iCal specification