noda

NOde Developing Assistant

noda is a very lower-level package which will help you easily accessing files and directories in your package or adjacent to your Node.js file.

Table of contents

• Get Started
• API
• Examples

Links

• CHANGE LOG
• Homepage

Get Started

const noda = require('noda');

const foo = noda.inRequire('util/foo');
// require <homedir>/util/foo.js
// Here <homedir> is home directory of current node.js package(module).

const bar = noda.osRequire('./foo/bar');
// require ./foo/bar/<platform>.js
// Here platform equals to the returned value of os.platform().

const lib = noda.requireDir('./lib');
// require all sub modules in ./lib and return a hash object

API

Before read APIs, please understand that

1. The phrase "current package" refers to the NPM package which contains the nodejs file where code noda.* located.
2. Parameter subpath refers to pathname relative to the basepath of "current package".
3. Because all functions are synchronous, postfix Sync is omitted.
4. For functions with name prefixed with preposition in, the scope is "current package". E.g. noda.inRead() will read a file in current package.
5. For functions with name prefixed with preposition next, up and down, the scope is "current file". E.g. noda.nextRead() will read a file adjacent to current file.

• noda.bindings(string name)
  Require an addon.node.
  This method is allowed to be required as noda/bindings.

• noda.packageOf(string id, Object module)
  Return the object parsed from package.json which belongs to the special package named id according to the view angle of special module.

• noda.currentPackage()
  Return the object parsed from package.json which belongs to current package.

• noda.once(Function action)
  Run specified function immediately when the code is first time reached.

• noda.inExists(string subpath, boolean resolveAsModule)
  Judge whether file or directory exists. If resolveAsModule set true, subpath will be tentatively regarded as JS/JSON module path in the current package when the exact file not exists. This method is synchronuous.

• noda.inRead(string subpath [, string encoding, boolean nullIfNotFound ])
  Read content of file.

• noda.inReaddir(string subpath)
  Read the contents of a directory.

• noda.inRequire(string subpath)
  Require js or json.

• noda.inRequireDir(string dirname, Array | string ignores)
  Based on requireDir(), but the dirname is regarded as relative path to home directory of the package in which the caller is located.
  ignores includes those that SHOULD NOT be required. If '*/' contained in ignores, all sub directories will not be required whether or not index.js exists in the sub directories. If '*' contained in ignores, all .js files will not be required.

• noda.inResolve(string subpath)
  Resolve the subpath into an absolute path.

• noda.nextRead(string subpath [, string encoding, boolean nullIfNotFound ])
  Read content of file.

• noda.osRequire(string dirname)
  Require module whose name is same with the name of current platform. Relative dirname is acceptable.

• noda.requireDir(string dirname, Array | string ignores)
  Read the directory and require all javascript modules except those excluded, and returned them in an object with keys equal to modules' name. Relative dirname is acceptable.
  ATTENTION：Directory "node_modules" is always ignored whether or not it is explictly added in ignores.

• noda.upResolve(string pathname)
  Find sub-directory or file in ascent directory and return the full path.

• noda.downResolve(string pathname [, number depth, string order ])
  Find sub-directory or file in descent directory and return the full path. The value of order may be DFS (means depth-first search) or BFS (means breadth-first search).

• noda.existsInPackage
  Alias of noda.inExists.

• noda.readInPackage
  Alias of noda.inRead.

• noda.requireInPackage
  Alias of noda.inRequire.

• noda.requireDirInPackage
  Alias of noda.inRequireDir.

• noda.resolveInPackage
  Alias of noda.inResolve.

Examples

Suppose that there is an NPM package named ching:

+ ching
  + bin
  + command
  + lib
  + node_modules
  + util
  . CHANGELOG.md
  . conf.js
  . index.js
  . package.json
  . README.md

Let's see what noda can do.

// FILE: ching/command/init/index.js
const noda = require('noda');

// Read ching/package.json and return the parsed JSON object.
noda.currentPackage();

// Require ching/util/rc.js and return.
noda.inRequire('util/rc');