@classmodel/class package

This is an implementation of the Chemistry Land-surface Atmosphere Soil Slab (CLASS) model that runs entirely in the browser or any Javascript runtime like NodeJS.

For more information on CLASS, see https://classmodel.github.io/.

Web application

The CLASS web application that uses this package is available at https://classmodel.github.io/class-web.

Command line usage

The class model can be run from the command line.

1# Generate config file with default values
2pnpx @classmodel/class generate -o config.json
3# Or download one of the presets from
4# https://github.com/classmodel/class-web/tree/main/apps/class-solid/src/lib/presets
5
6# Edit the config file
7
8# Run the model
9pnpx @classmodel/class run config.json
10# Outputs h variable for each timestep in JSON format
11
12# To output csv use
13pnpx @classmodel/class run --output output.csv --format csv config.json
14
15# To read from stdin use
16cat config.json | pnpx @classmodel/class -
17
18# To get the JSON schema of the config file use
19pnpx @classmodel/class schema -o config.schema.json

If you do not have pnpx installed you can use npx instead.

In development use pnpx tsx src/cli.ts ./config.json.

To use the reference configuration of a experiment downloaded from the web application extract it with jq using

1jq .reference < ~/Downloads/class-MyExperiment.json  > config.json

Package usage

Install with

1pnpm install @classmodel/class

Run model with default config use

1import { runClass } from "@classmodel/class/runner";
2const config = {}
3const output = runClass(config)
4console.log(output)

Developers

This package is part of a monorepo with other packages and applications.

JSON schema

The Class model uses a JSON schema to validate the input configuration. The schema is defined in the @classmodel/class package and can be found at src/config.ts (in repo). The schema is used to validate the input configuration and to generate a form to input the configuration.

The src/config.ts file contains the embedded JSON schema and its Typescript type definition.

See the form package for additional keywords in the JSON schema.

Conditional properties

To allow for some properties to be only defined and required when another property is true. We use the if/then/else syntax. The if block should refer to a property in the main properties object. The then block can define additional properties that are required when the if property is true.

See existing Config type in src/config.ts file on how to define the TypeScript type of a new if/then/else block.

Linter

To check types, you can run the pnpm typecheck command as other commands ignore types.

Tests

The unit tests are written with node:test and node:assert.

The unit tests can be run with the following command:

1pnpm test

To get test coverage

1# Does not work via pnpm script so need to call node directly
2node --import tsx --test --experimental-test-coverage --test-reporter=lcov --test-reporter-destination=lcov.info src/*.test.ts
3# To generate a html report use genhtml which is part of lcov OS package
4genhtml lcov.info --output-directory coverage

API Documentation

The API documention of the package can be generated with

1pnpm run docs

Which will write HTML files to docs/ directory.

The documentation of the latest release is published at https://classmodel.github.io/class-web/docs/.

Disclaimer

This project includes code that was generated with the assistance of a language model (LLM). All code generated by the LLM has been reviewed by the development team.