@xan105/fs v2.3.0

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File system manipulation without headache.

📦 Scoped @xan105 packages are for my own personal use but feel free to use them.

Install / Runtime

📦 Package manager

npm install @xan105/fs

• Node ✔️

API

⚠️ This module is only available as an ECMAScript module (ESM) starting with version 2.0.0. Previous version(s) are CommonJS (CJS) with an ESM wrapper.

Named export

readFile(filePath: string, options?: object | string): Promise<string | Buffer>

Auto remove utf bom (string only).

readJSON(filePath: string): Promise<string>

Parse JSON and remove utf bom if any.

writeFile(filePath: string, data: unknown, options?: object | string): Promise<string>

Create target parent dir if doesn't exist.

⚙️ Options:

• bom (default: false)

  add utf bom (string only).

writeJSON(filePath: string, data: unknown, option?: object): Promise<string>

Write JSON to file and return filePath for convenience.

⚙️ Options:

• pretty (default: true)

  insert white space into the output JSON string for readability purposes.

• bigint2str (default: true)

  convert bigint to string.

copyFile(src: string, dest: string, flags: number): Promise<void>

Create target parent dir if doesn't exist.

mv(oldPath: string, newPath: string): Promise<string>

Create target parent dir if doesn't exist. Move on same drive otherwise copy to target and delete origin.

exists(path: string): Promise<boolean>

existsAndIsOlderOrYoungerThan(path: string, option?: object): Promise<boolean>

⚙️ Options:

• time: amount of time unit (default 1)
• timeUnit: s|m|h|d|w|M|Y (default day)
• younger: compare mode younger than (true) or older than (false/default)

existsAndIsOlderThan(path: string, option?: object): Promise<boolean>

⚙️ Options:

• time: amount of time unit (default 1)

• timeUnit: s|m|h|d|w|M|Y (default day)

existsAndIsYoungerThan(path: string, option?: object): Promise<boolean>

⚙️ Options:

• time: amount of time unit (default 1)
• timeUnit: s|m|h|d|w|M|Y (default day))

stat(path: string): Promise<object>

alias stats(path: string): Promise<object>

On error returns an empty object.

mkdir(dirPath: string): Promise<string | undefined>

Recursive.

rm(path: string): Promise<void>

alias unlink(path: string): Promise<void> alias deleteFile(path: string): Promise<void> alias rmdir(path: string): Promise<void>

Nuke the target 🚀💥.

hashFile(filePath: string, algo?: string): Promise<string>

Hash specified file (use stream). algo defaults to "sha256".

touch(filePath: string): Promise<void>

Create, change and modify timestamps of a file.

ls(dirPath: string, option?: object): Promise<string[] | object[]>

List directory contents.

⚙️ Options:

• verbose: boolean (false)
• recursive: boolean (false)

• absolute: boolean false)

  Return absolute or relative path

• follow: boolean (false)

  Whether or not to follow symlink

• normalize: boolean (false)

  Whether or not to normalize path seperator to "/"

• ignore:

  • dir: boolean (false)
  • file: boolean (false)
  • symlink: boolean (false)
  • socket: boolean (false)
  • dot: boolean (true)

• filter: string

• whitelist: boolean (false)

  Turn the filter list into a whitelist

• ext: string

  Allowed file extension

• pattern: RegExp (none)

  Return value:

  If verbose is true returns a detailed list as

[
  {
    name: string, //file name
    path: string, //path of file
    link?: string | undefined //symlink target
  },
  ...
]

Otherwise string[] (path of file)

compareFile(a: string, b:string, algo?: string): Promise<boolean>

Compare files to determine if they are identical.

Comparison is by default done with "sha1" algo (cf: hashFile()) unless files size don't match.

path

resolve(path: string): string

Resolve fileURL and path if necessary.

dirname(path: string): string

Handles path and fileURL.

normalize(path: string, win32?: boolean): string

replace every \\ with /

When win32 is set to true (default is false) replace every / with \\

isRoot(path: string): boolean

isBasename(path: string): boolean

win32

sanitizeFileName(string: string): string

setHidden(path: string): Promise<void>

removeHidden(path: string): Promise<void>

setReadOnly(path: string): Promise<void>

removeReadOnly(path: string): Promise<void>

isHidden(path: string): Promise<boolean>

isReadOnly(path: string): Promise<boolean>

isHiddenAndReadOnly(path: string): Promise<boolean>