purposefile
Make sure every file in your repo is exactly where it should be.
Install
First, make sure node and npm are installed.
Then if you have an existing package.json
you can run:
npm install --save-dev purposefilenpx purposefile
Or if you want to use it globally you can also just run:
npx purposefile
It's recommended that you save this to your package.json#scripts
npm run check-files
Usage
First create a .purposefile
in the root of your project like this:
.purposefile Configures purposefile.gitignore Configures git to ignore certain files.prettierrc Configures Prettier.prettierignore Configures Prettier ignored filespackage.json Configures npm and related toolspackage-lock.json Lock file for npm dependenciestsconfig.json Configures TypeScriptREADME.md Documentation for repoLICENSE License for package.git/** Internal git state & confignode_modules/**/* Dependencies installed by npmtypings/*/*.d.ts TypeScript library type definitionssrc/**/*.ts Source files!src/**/*.test.ts Dont place test files within src/test/**/*.test.ts Test filesdist/**/*.{js,d.ts}{,.map} Built source files.github/*.png Images for README
Note: Entries are matched in reverse order. Entries with no defined purpose or that start with a
!
act like negations to the globs above them.
Then run:
npx purposefile
If all the files in the repo are known, you'll get:
Or if there's any unknown files:
If you want to check the purpose of a file you can run:
purposefile path/to/file
If you want to check the purpose of many files at once you can also specify globs:
purposefile '**' --ignore '**/node_modules/**'
Note: You can specify multiple
--ignore
patterns to exclude files from being listed.
If you want to check purposefile
before every commit, you can do so with Husky:
{ "husky": { "hooks": { "pre-commit": "purposefile" // Or "purposefile && lint-staged" if you use `lint-staged` } }}