rmrf-promise

The awesome rimraf package wrapped in Promises for removing files and folders recursively using Node.

Why?

While Node's built-in fs package works well for many file system operations, recursive folder deletion is somewhat inconsistent, especially in Windows. rimraf solved that problem by creating a library which can consistently remove folders. rmrf-promise does not add or take away anything from rimraf itself. All that rmrf-promise does is return Promises instead of taking callbacks when calling rimraf.

Installation

$ npm install rmrf-promise

Usage

rimraf(filePath, [options])

filePath is the path to the file or folder to be removed.

options is an optional object of rimraf options. To see all available options, click here.

Examples:

const rmrf = require('rmrf-promise');
 
// Usage with manual Promise handling
rmrf('some-file-path')
    .then(() => {
        // success!
    })
    .catch(err => {
        // handle error
    });
 
// Usage within an sync function
async function() {
    try {
        await rmrf('some-file-path');
        // success!
    } catch(err) {
        // handle error
    }
};
 
// Usage within a generator function
co(function*() {
    try {
        yield rmrf('some-file-path');
        // success!
    } catch(err) {
        // handle error
    }
});

Running Tests

$ npm install
$ npm test

License

Apache License Version 2.0