ooafs

OOAFS allows you to manipulate the FileSystem in an object-oriented fashion, by using objects to represent FS entries (like Java's File class) and promises instead of the old callbacks. This way, you don't have to spend your time concatenating paths and manually filtering files. Here's a little preview of what can be done:

let themesFolder = new Entry("./plugins/").d;
let themes = await themesFolder.list({ type: EntryType.DIRECTORY });
 
for (let themeFolder of themes) {
  const manifestFile = themeFolder.child('manifest.json');
  
  if (!await manifestFile.exists()) continue;
 
  const manifest = JSON.parse(await manifestFile.read('utf8'));
  const iconStream = themeFolder.child('icon.png').createReadStream();
  
  loadTheme(manifest.name, iconStream, themeFolder);
}

Setup

Download

npm install ooafs

Import / Require

import { Entry, File, Directory } from 'ooafs';
 
// Create a file wrapper
const file: File = new Entry("./path/file.txt");

Entry is a class, while File and Directory are interfaces implemented by this class. These interfaces can be used for a better type-safety

Usage

The library is completely typed, so as long as you use a relatively good editor like VSCode, you shouldn't have much problems finding the available methods and properties.

Examples

function backupNodeProject(project: Directory, backupFolder: Directory) {
    // `name` is the basename of the project folder
    const backup = backupFolder.child(project.name);
 
    project.copy(backup);
 
    // Delete 20Gb of useless data !
    backup.child("node_modules").remove();
}

import { Directory, EntryFilter } from 'ooafs';
 
const filter: EntryFilter = {
    extensions: ['.png', '.jpeg', '.jpg', '.bmp'],
 
    // Custom filtering function
    async filter(image) {
        return (await image.size()) > 1023;
    }
};
 
// const picturesDir: Directory = new Entry("pictures");
// is the same as:
const picturesDir = new Entry("pictures").d;
const images = await picturesDir.listRecursively(filter);

TypeScript support

ooafs in entirely written in TypeScript and thus, is completely typed. In addition to that, when you import the module, you can use two interfaces, File and Directory to mask out methods that are not related to files and directories, respectively:

import { Entry, File, Directory } from 'ooafs';
 
const file: File = new Entry("/path");
 
// This shows an error: File doesn't have a `list` method
file.list();

Instead of manually casting your Entry instance to one of the two interfaces, you can also use a specifically made getter:

import { Entry } from 'ooafs';
 
// Add `.f` behind the constructor expression
// file is now typed as `File`
const file = new Entry("/path").f;
 
// This shows an error: File doesn't have a `list` method
file.list();

Three are available: .e, .d and .f.

Bugs & Suggestions

If you notice any bug or have a suggestion, please tell me about it in the issues, it will help everyone!

Tests

Tests are created with mocha and asserted with chai.expect.

You can run the suite using

npm test

License

ooafs is licensed under the very permissive MIT License. You may use it for commercial projects if you comply to the license.