typologist v0.2.0

typologist

typologist sorts files into symlink collections, using easy-to-write plugins. It can be used to categorize every type of file-based data, for example text, music or photos. Because it leverages plugins, it can categorize by any criteria, such as file extension, size, ID3 tag, EXIF data or checksum.

Example

Let's assume we have a directory ./documents containing 4 files.

documents/
	01.js
	02.md
	03.txt
	04.js

Now we want to sort our files into symlink collections, named after the file extension.

var Typologist = require('typologist');   // load typologist
var path = require('path');   // we will need path later

To sort our files, we need to create a new instance of Typologist. Typologist has to arguments:

1. source is base directory for all files to sort. For us, this is documents.
2. dest is the base directory for all collections of symlinks. For us, this is ..

t = new Typologist('documents', '.');

Let's write a plugin that specifies one collection for each file, named after the file extension.

function sortDocuments (file, _, callback) {
	var extension = path.extname(file.basename).substr(1);   // example: `one.js` -> `js`

	file.collections = {};   // an object containing all symlinks
	file.collections[extension] = file.basename;

	callback(null, file);   // `null` because no error occured
}

We bind our plugin to the Typologist instance.

t.use(sortDocuments);

Now, we can add files one or more globs. typologist will pass these files as vinyl objects to the plugin. According to what the plugin specifies, typologist then create symlink collections.

t.src('*');   // match any file in `./documents`

Let's have a look at the result:

documents/
	01.js
	02.md
	03.txt
	04.js
js/
	01.js -> ../documents/01.js
	04.js -> ../documents/04.js
md/
	02.md -> ../documents/02.md
txt/
	03.txt -> ../documents/03.txt

Install

npm install typologist

Contributing

If you have a question, found a bug or want to propose a feature, have a look at the issues page.