VStor

In memory file manager using Vinyl files such as used in Gulp. Allows working with files in memory before writing to dist. Supports filters like you'd use with a Gulp plugin. Similar to mem-fs-editor with a few more API methods also handles in memory copy a little better preventing need of saving before moving or removing.

Install

--production is optional, but prevents installing devDependencies.

$ npm install vstor --production

Usage

Using TypeScript or ES6

import { VStor } from 'vstor';
const vstor = new VStor({ /* your options */ });
const contents = vstor.read('./some/path/to/file.txt').toValue();

Using ES5

var VStor = require('vstor').VStor;
var vstor = new VStor({ /* your options */ });
var buf = vstor.read('./some/path/to/file.txt').toBuffer();

Options

Option	Description	Default
basePath	a base path all files should be relative to	process.cwd()
jsonSpacer	string or number of spaces for formatting JSON	2

API

Arguments are depicted with TypeScript type annotations.

Properties

Property	Description
options	object containing VStor options.
store	returns the entire file store.

Methods

Method	Description	Arguments	Returns
resolveKey	resolves file key using base path.	key: string	string
hasKey	checks if store contains key.	key: string	VinylFile
exists	checks if file in store and not deleted.	path: string | VinylFile	boolean
isEmpty	check if file contents are not null.	path: string | VinylFile	boolean
read	reads a file.	path: string | VinylFile, def?: any	IReadMethods
write	writes a file.	path: string | VinylFile, contents: string | Buffer | IMap, stat?: Stats	VStor
copy	copies a file or directory of files.	from: string | string[], to: string, options?: IGlobOptions | CopyTransform, transform?: CopyTransform	VStor
move	moves a file.	from: string, to: string, options?: IGlobOptions	VStor
append	appends value to file.	to: string, content: string | Buffer, trim?: boolean	VStor
remove	removes a file.	paths: string | string[], options?: IGlobOptions	VStor
save	saves all changes to disk.	filters?: Transform[] | SaveCallback, fn?: SaveCallback	VStor

Examples

Writing file to JSON.

vstor
  .write('./some/path/data.json', { name: 'John', age: 33 })
  .save();

Move file.

vstor
  .move('./some/path/data.json', './some/path/moved.json')
  .save();

Appending to a file.

vstor
  .append('./some/path/myfile.txt', 'some new line.')
  .save();

Apply filter on save.

Filter callback args:

• file - the Vinyl File object.
• enc - the file encoding.
• done - callback to continue.

vstor
  .save((file, enc, done) => {
    // do something on each file in store.
    done();
  });

Events

VStor provides events you can listen on.

Event	Description	Arguments
changed	fires on any put to store.	file: VinylFile, vstor: VStor
copied	fires on file copied.	file: VinylFile, vstor: VStor
moved	fires on file moved.	file: VinylFile, vstor: VStor
appended	fires on file appended.	file: VinylFile, vstor: VStor
removed	fires on file removed.	file: VinylFile, vstor: VStor

Liten to any change event.

Below describes listening to the "changed" event but all events work exactly the same.

vstor.on('changed', (file) => {
  // do something with the changed file.
});

Change

See CHANGE.md

License

See LICENSE.md