clean-dest v1.3.3

clean-dest

A CLI to clean a destination directory given a source directory.

Designed initially with typescript in mind, but can be used with any file types.

Install

$ npm install clean-dest

Usage

Folder structure

│
└───scripts
│   │   clean-dest.js
│
└───src
│   │   file1.ts
│   │   file2.ts
│
└───dist
│   │   file1.js
│   │   file1.js.map
│   │   file1.d.ts
│   │   file2.js
│   │   file2.js.map
│   │   file2.d.ts

Custom FileMap function

./scripts/clean-dest.js

module.exports = exports = {
    // Rename the file extensions from the 'ts' from the src folder to what we expect in the dest folder
    '.ts': (destFilePath) => [
        destFilePath.replace(/.ts$/, '.d.ts'),
        destFilePath.replace(/.ts$/, '.js'),
        destFilePath.replace(/.ts$/, '.js.map'),
    ]
};

CLI command

clean-dest -s ./src -d ./dist --file-map ./scripts/clean-dest

CLI

src-root

Glob pattern(s) for source files.

dest-root

Destination root directory.

base-pattern

An optional starting pattern to delete, default is "dest-root"/*/.

file-map

Path to a js file whose only export is an extension to clean, or a ext: fn object to map source path to destination path(s).

permanent

Optional permanent delete using del, otherwise uses trash.

dry-run

Optional test run to not actually delete matched files.

verbose

Optional output logging.

API

See the API docs.

Watch Mode

Use nodemon:

nodemon --watch ./src -e ts --exec clean-dest -s ./src -d ./dist