glob-build

Globs for files in a directory, processes them all and builds up a nested object

npm install --save glob-build

Example

Say you have a directory with a bunch of mustache templates in a complex directory, and you want an easy way to get to them via a JS api.

The directory might look like

example/
    foo.html
    bar/baz.html

With this library, you can easily turn that into a JS object that looks like

{
    foo: render(data),
    bar: {
        baz: render(data)
    }
}

With some simple code:

var globBuild = require("../").build;
var mustache = require("mustache");
 
globBuild(__dirname, "html", builder).then(function(templates) {
    console.log("Result:", templates);
    console.log(templates.foo({
        place: "World"
    }));
    console.log(templates.bar.baz({
        place: "World"
    }));
}).catch(function(err) {
    console.log("Error:", err, err.stack);
})
 
function builder(contents, name) {
    // Name doesn't matter for this
    return function(data) {
        return mustache.render(contents, data);
    }
}

API

build([directory], [extension], [builder])

Takes in a directory, a file extension to match for, and a function for modifying files before they're saved to a tree.

arguments

• [directory] String: The directory to crawl through. Uses present working directory by default.
• [extension] String: What file extensions to traget, * by default
• [builder] Function(contents,name) A function for building the value for that file in the tree. contents is the contents of that file (assumes utf8), name is a key path for the file in the tree (looks.like.this). By default it just sets the value to the contents.

returns

• Promise: Resolves to the generated tree from the files and the builder.

Note: this library uses any-promise, so make sure to have a compatible promise implementation installed.