create-fs-tree

Create a filesystem tree from a definition. This module is intended to use in unit/e2e tests to create a pre-determined fs trees.

Use

You probably want to install this as an npm dev dependency:

npm install --save-dev create-fs-tree

Use it in your tests:

import {expect} from "chai";
import {createTree, destroyTree} from "create-fs-tree";
import {readFileSync} from "fs";
import {tmpdir} from "os";
import {join} from "path";

describe("my test subject", () => {

    const dir = join(os.tmpdir(), "root");

    before(() => {
        createTree(dir, {
            "file": "file content",
            "other-file": Buffer.from("other-file content"),
            "sub-dir": {
                "sub-file": "sub-file content"
            }
        });
    });
    after(() => {
        destroyTree(dir);
    });

    it("my test", () => {
        expect(
            readFileSync(join(dir, "file"))
        ).to.equal("file content");
    });

});

API

createTree(root, definition)

Creates under the root directory a fs tree as specified in the definition.

WARNING: createTree removes the root directory before creating the specified fs tree.

Arguments

• root string: root directory under which the fs tree is created. The directory is created if it doesn't exist, it's emptied if it already exists
• definition object: an object describing the fs tree to create. Its properties' values can either be:
  • strings or buffers: in which case a file with the property key as name and the property value as content will be created
  • definition objects: in which case a directory with the property key as name will be created, and under it a fs tree as described by the property value (which of course is a definition object)

Returns

Nothing.

Example

createTree("mydir", {
    "level-0-file": Buffer.from("level-0-file content\n"),
    "level-0-dir": {
        "level-1-file": "level-1-file content\n",
        "level-1-dir": {}
    }
});

Creates a fs tree so that:

$ tree mydir
mydir
├── level-0-file
└── level-0-dir
    ├── level-1-file
    └── level-1-dir
$ cat mydir/level-0-file
level-0-file content
$ cat mydir/level-0-dir/level-1-file
level-1-file content

---

destroyTree(root)

Removes the root path. Equivalent to rm -rf.

Arguments

• root string: path to remove

Returns

Nothing.

Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING.