Node-Strap

A simple utility function to help bootstrap Node.js projects.

Usage

The simplest way to use it would be.

const nodeStrap = require('node-strap');

nodeStarp('./initializers');

And that's it. The function will navigate to the directory. Find all files with the extension .js and require them.

requiring a function If node-strap will require a function it will call that function immediately. Keep that in mind, if you want to supply some arguments to that function use options.applyArgs

Options

node-strap supports an options as a second argument:

• rootDir - tells the function the root directory of your project. If not specified it will use process.cwd() to determine this value. Therefore it is a good idea to add this option, a simple __dirname should be good enough :wink:
• applyArgs - a list of arguments to supply to a function if one was required, default: []
• strapDirectories - flag that tells if node-strap require files in a directory if it encountered one, default false. If this is set to true, then keep in mind that callOrder doesn't support setting up for multiple directories, only 1 array can be specified.
• callOrder - an array of files data will determine the order of required files, default: []. The extension .js can be omitted, for example:

const callOrder = ['first_file.js', 'second_file.js'];
// or
const callOrder = ['first_file', 'second_file'];

Either way is fine. And yes, I'm aware that I've redfined a const value, it's just to show that you should pick one :smirk:

• strapFirst - this one is a bit tricky, but in short, you can specify only few list of files that will be "bootstrapped" first, and the rest will be required as read in directory (most likley aplhabetically, but that's not guaranteed). Important is that, options.callOrder takes precedense, if it is specified, this option will be ignored.

Caveat

The exported function is synchronous. Please keep that in mind. The use case for this was to initiate a project, so you wouldn't have to write all those require by hand. Just keep them in one place. And require is synchronous therefore I've seen no reason to make it asynchronous :sunglasses: