httpignore

This is a utility and CLI for interfacing with httpignore files.

A word on httpignore files

I made them up (thanks to @lund0n for the inspiration). I wanted a way to be able to serve up files from my node_modules directory but to allow individual modules to mark things which, while they are published, ought not to be served over HTTP.

My use case was for a private npm registry where I don't mind if internal people can see, say, our README.md files, but I don't want all our internal documentation to be customer facing.

The approach is simple and should be very familiar if you've used a .npmignore or a .gitignore file. It follows all the same rules as those files. In this case they define what files ought not be served over HTTP.

Installation

npm install httpignore. All the normal flags apply.

API

ignored()

Returns a promise which resolves with an array of all the filters that are being applied via the httpignore files.

files()

Returns a promise which resolves with an array of all files which are allowed after the filters are applied.

copy(dest)

Returns a promise which resolves once all files from the files call are copied to the directory dest. If dest does not exist, it will create it.

CLI

Usage:

httpignore-copy <dest>

Performs the copy api method on the directory specified by dest. Paths are relative to the current working directory.

Development

A standard npm install and npm test will get you running here. Please merge squash PRs.

License

MIT

Copyright 2016 Matt Winchester

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