Easily access your files in any folder or sub-folder.
It is often difficult to retrieve and use files stored locally at your application, fs-recursive
allows you to retrieve any file saved in a folder or sub-folder at a defined location.
Install the module in your project via YARN
yarn add fs-recursive
Or NPM
npm install fs-recursive
The fs-recursive
is very simple to use, you need to use the followed function :
fetch(
directory: string,
extentions: Array<string>,
encode?: Buffer | string | undefined,
callback?: (file: File) => void
): Promise<Map<string, File>>
fetchExpression (
path: string,
filenamePattern: RegExp,
encode: Encode,
excludes?: Array<string>,
callback?: (file: File) => void
): Promise<Map<string, File>>
fetchSortedExpression (
path: string,
filenamePattern: RegExp,
sortedExtensions: Array<string>,
encode: Encode,
excludes?: Array<string>,
callback?: (file: File) => void
): Promise<Array<File>>
import { fetch } from 'fs-recursive';
const directory = path.join(process.cwd(), 'folder');
const extensions = ['ts', 'json'];
const files = await fetch(directory, extensions, 'utf-8'); // return Map<string, File>
console.log(files.entries().next().value[1]);
/**
* Log the followed result
*
* File {
* path: 'E:\\WindowsData\\Desktop\\folder`\\File.ts',
* filename: 'File',
* extension: 'ts',
* size: 1513 ๐ expredded in bytes
* }
*/
You can get the same result using RegExp
import { fetchExpression } from 'fs-recursive';
const directory = path.join(process.cwd(), 'folder');
const expression = /.*\.ts$/;
const files = await fetchExpression(directory, expression, 'utf-8'); // return Map<string, File>
console.log(files.entries().next().value[1]);
/**
* Log the followed result
*
* File {
* path: 'E:\\WindowsData\\Desktop\\folder`\\File.ts',
* filename: 'File',
* extension: 'ts',
* size: 1513 ๐ expredded in bytes
* }
*/
Then you can access to other data like this
const files = await fetch(directory, extensions, 'utf-8'); // return Map<string, File>
const file = files.entries().next().value[1];
const stats = await file.getStats();
console.log(stats);
/**
* Stats {
* dev: 310369320,
* mode: 33206,
* nlink: 1,
* uid: 0,
* gid: 0,
* rdev: 0,
* blksize: 4096,
* ino: 562949956735823,
* size: 72,
* blocks: 0,
* atimeMs: 1618523067313.032,
* mtimeMs: 1618521064609.6714,
* ctimeMs: 1618521064609.6714,
* birthtimeMs: 1618521033264.188,
* atime: 2021-04-15T21:44:27.313Z,
* mtime: 2021-04-15T21:11:04.610Z,
* ctime: 2021-04-15T21:11:04.610Z,
* birthtime: 2021-04-15T21:10:33.264Z
* }
*/
You can sort results by their extension
import { fetchSortedExpression } from 'fs-recursive';
const extensions = ['ts', 'js'];
const expression = /.*\.(ts|js)$/;
const files = await fetchSortedExpression(
process.cwd(),
expression,
extensions,
'utf-8'
);
console.log(files);
/**
* Log the followed result
*
* [
* File {
* path: 'E:\\WindowsData\\Desktop\\folder`\\File.ts',
* filename: 'File',
* extension: 'ts',
* size: 1513 ๐ expredded in bytes
* },
* File {
* path: 'E:\\WindowsData\\Desktop\\folder`\\File.js',
* filename: 'File',
* extension: 'js',
* size: 1513 ๐ expredded in bytes
* }
* ]
*/