not-index

Require all lowercase-filenames.js that are not index.js

This package makes including directories easier by making require('./dir') return an array of required files

Example dir/index.js

// Synchronous
module.exports = require('not-index')(__dirname);

// Promised - using async fs call for reading the directory
// All require calls still block though
module.exports = require('not-index').promise(__dirname);

// Access subdirectory
// Arguments will be put into path.join
module.exports = require('not-index')([__dirname, 'subdir'])

// Access subdirectory and use a custom regex
module.exports = require('not-index')([__dirname, 'subdir'], /[a-z0-9]\.js/)

Example: the current directory contains the following files. Entries with a trailing slash are directories.

my-dir/
  file.js
  file-with-dashes.js
  file.with.js
  file.with
  file.js.notjs
  index.js
  tmp/
  zzz/

The default file matching regex is /^(?!index)[0-9a-z\-]+\.js$/. This can be overridden by passing a regex as the last argument (see above).

Synchronous

const requires = require('not-index')(__dirname);

// requires is an array with the following:
[
  require('./file.js'),
  require('./file-with-dashes.js'),
  require('./file.with.js')
]

Asynchronous

require('not-index')
  .promise()
  .then(requires => {
    // requires is the same as above but the asynchronous fs call is used for
    // reading the current directory
  });

Example exporting classes by name on a single object

const requires = require('not-index')(__dirname);

module.exports = requires.reduce((_classes, _class) => {
  return {
    ..._classes,
    [_class.name]: _class,
  }
}, {})