fs-magic

An extended, promisified fs drop-in-replacement for Node.js >=7.6

Features

• All asynchronous fs functions are and converted into promises with async-magic
• Lot of extended functions are added
• Designed to run with the pure power of native Promise, await and async function
• No backward compatibility layer
• OS Support for POSIX and Win Platforms (as of v1.3.0)
• Streams, Streams, Streams - all file operations are stream-based!

Addons

• copy Just copy a file (stream based)
• bulkCopy Copy multiple files/directories in once
• mkdirp Create directories recursivly
• scandir List all files + directories of given directory recursivly
• rmrf Removes all files of a given directory recursivly
• exists Custom exists function to test file existence
• isFile Check if item is a file
• isDirectory Check if item is a directory
• isSymlink Check if item is a symlink
• isSocket Check if item is a socket
• isFileOfType Check if item is of specific type
• FileInputStream Open a new fileReadStream
• FileOutputStream Write stream to destination file
• untar Extracting .tar archives using tar-stream
• untgz Extracting gzip compressed .tar archives
• gzip Compress a file
• gunzip Decompress a file
• sha1file SHA1 File Checksum
• sha256file SHA256 File Checksum
• sha384file SHA384 File Checksum
• sha512file SHA512 File Checksum
• md5file MD5 File Checksum
• checksum Generic File Checksum
• statx Silent stat (returns false in case of ENOENT)

Promisified FS API

The following asynchronous fs methods are promisified and exposed within the fs-magic object. All synchronous functions are ignored because there is no need for them anymore - use await!

• access
• appendFile
• chmod
• chown
• close
• fchmod
• fchown
• fdatasync
• fstat
• fsync
• ftruncate
• futimes
• lchown
• link
• lstat
• mkdir
• mkdtemp
• open
• read
• readFile
• readdir
• readlink
• realpath
• rename
• rmdir
• stat
• symlink
• truncate
• unlink
• utimes
• write
• writeFile

General Usage

const _fsm = require('fs-magic');

// wraper 
(async function(){
    // get stats
    const stats= await _fsm.fstat('myfile.js');

    // does the file exists ?
    console.log(await _fsm.exists('myfile.js'));

    // copy a file, set chmod to 0640
    await _fsm.copy('test1.js', 'test2.js', 0o640);

    // create directory stucture at once
    await _fsm.mkdirp('my/custom/dir/1/2/3', 0o777, true);

    // use fs methods
    await _fsm.rmdir('mydir');
})();

fs-magic::copy

Description: Copy a single file

Syntax: copy(sourcefile:string, destinationfile:string, mode:int=null)

Example:

// copy a file, set chmod to 0640
await _fsm.copy('test1.js', 'test2.js', 0o640);

fs-magic::bulkCopy

Description: Copy multiple files at once

Syntax: bulkCopy(srcset:Array, createDestinationDirs:boolean=true, defaultFilemode:int=0o750, defaultDirmode:int=0o777)

Example:

// list of files to copy
const srcset = [
    ['source/file1.js', 'destination/subdir/file1.js', 0o644],
    ['source/file2.js', 'destination/subdir/file2.js', 0o644],
    ['source/file3.js', 'destination/subdir/x/file3.js', 0o644],
    ['source/file4.js', 'destination/subdir/x/file4.js', 0o644],
];

// copy files + create destination directories
await _fsm.bulkCopy(srcset, true);

fs-magic::mkdirp

Description: Create a directories recusivly

Syntax: mkdirp(directory:string, mode:int=0o777, recursive:boolean=false)

Example:

// create directory stucture at once
await _fsm.mkdirp('my/custom/dir/1/2/3', 0o777, true);

fs-magic::scandir

Description: List all files + directories of given directory recursivly (optional)

Syntax: scandir(directory:string, recursive:boolean=true, absolutePaths:boolean=false)

Example:

// get file + directory list of all files. Use absolute output paths
const [files, dirs] = await _fs.scandir('project/modules', true, true);

fs-magic::rmrf

Description: Removes all files of a given directory recursivly

Syntax: rmrf(directory:string)

Note: For security reasons, this function does not accept the file system root / or a directory within it like /etc as input

Example:

// remove a project folder
await _fs.rmrf('projects/js1');

fs-magic::exists

Description: Check if a file/directory/link exists

Syntax: exists(filedir:string)

Example:

// does the file exists ?
console.log(await _fsm.exists('myfile.js'));

fs-magic::isFile

Description: Check if a item is of type file

Syntax: isFile(filesystemItem:string)

Example:

// is a file ?
console.log(await _fsm.isFile('myfile.js'));

fs-magic::isDirectory

Description: Check if a item is of type directory

Syntax: isDirectory(filesystemItem:string)

Example:

// is a directory ?
console.log(await _fsm.isDirectory('/var/log'));

fs-magic::isSocket

Description: Check if a item is of type socket

Syntax: isSocket(filesystemItem:string)

Example:

// is a socket ?
console.log(await _fsm.isSocket('/var/run/phpfpm.sock'));

fs-magic::isSymlink

Description: Check if a item is of type symlink

Syntax: isSymlink(filesystemItem:string)

Example:

// is a symlink ?
console.log(await _fsm.isSymlink('/etc/motd'));

fs-magic::isFileOfType

Description: Check if a item is of specific type

Syntax: isFileOfType(filename:string, condition:function)

Example:

// check if node is socket
async function isSocket(filename){
    return await _fsm.isFileOfType(filename, (stats) => stats.isSocket());
};

fs-magic::FileInputStream

Description: Open a fileStream for read

Syntax: FileInputStream(sourcefile:string)

Example:

const _fsm = require('fs-magic');

// copy source file to destination (override it)
async function copy(src, dst, mode=null){
    // open file input stream
    const istream = await _fsm.FileOutputStream(src);

    // write stream content to file
    return _fsm.FileOutputStream(istream, dst, mode);
}

fs-magic::FileOutputStream

Description: Writes given stream into file

Syntax: FileOutputStream(readstream:stream, destinationFilename:string, mode:int=false)

Example:

const _fsm = require('fs-magic');
const _fetch = require('node-fetch');

// fetch remote content
const response = await _fetch('http://example.org/file.gz');

// write stream content to file
await _fsm.FileOutputStream(response.body, dst, mode);

fs-magic::untar

Description: Extracts contents of a .tar archive into given directory using tar-stream

Syntax: untar(inputstream:stream, destinationDirectory:string)

Example:

const _fetch = require('node-fetch');
const _fsm = require('fs-magic');

// fetch remote content
const response = await _fetch('http://example.org/file.tar');

// unpack into currrent directory
let items = await _fsm.untar(response.body, '.');

fs-magic::untgz

Description: Extracts contents of a gzip compressed .tar.gz archive into given directory using tar-stream

Syntax: untgz(inputstream:stream, destinationDirectory:string)

Example:

const _fetch = require('node-fetch');

// fetch remote content
const response = await _fetch('http://example.org/file.tar.gz');

// unpack into currrent directory
let items = await _fsm.untgz(response.body, '.');

fs-magic::gzip

Description: Compresses a file

Syntax: gzip(input:{string, stream}, destinationFilename:string)

Example:

// compress a file
await _fsm.gzip('./file.txt', './file.gz');

fs-magic::gunzip

Description: Decompresses a file

Syntax: gunzip(input:{string, stream}, destinationFilename:string)

Example:

// decompress a file
await _fsm.gunzip('./file.gz', './my-file.txt');

// fetch content
const response = await _fetch('http://example.org/file.gz');

// decompress a stream
await _fsm.gunzip(response.body, './file.txt');

fs-magic::checksum

Description: Generic File Checksum

Syntax: checksum(filename:string, algorithm:string='sha256', outputFormat:string='hex')

Example:

// sha384 checksum as base64
const sum = await _fsm.checksum('./file.txt', 'sha384', 'base64');

fs-magic::sha1file

Description: SHA1 File Checksum

Syntax: sha1file(filename:string, outputFormat:string='hex')

Example:

// sha1 checksum as hex
const sum = await _fsm.sha1file('./file.txt');

fs-magic::sha256file

Description: SHA256 File Checksum

Syntax: sha256file(filename:string, outputFormat:string='hex')

Example:

// sha256 checksum as hex
const sum = await _fsm.sha256file('./file.txt');

fs-magic::sha384file

Description: SHA384 File Checksum

Syntax: sha384file(filename:string, outputFormat:string='hex')

Example:

// sha384 checksum as buffer
const sum = await _fsm.sha384file('./file.txt', 'raw');

fs-magic::sha512file

Description: SHA512 File Checksum

Syntax: sha512file(filename:string, outputFormat:string='hex')

Example:

// sha512 checksum as base64
const sum = await _fsm.sha512file('./file.txt', 'base64');

fs-magic::statx

Description: Extended stat function. The function retuns false in case of ENOENT error (file not found)

Syntax: statx(filesystemItem:string)

Example:

// get file stats ?
const stats = await _fsm.statx('/var/log/unknown_file.log');

if (stats !== false){
    console.log(stats);
}

Any Questions ? Report a Bug ? Enhancements ?

Please open a new issue on GitHub

License

fs-magic is OpenSource and licensed under the Terms of The MIT License