node-readfiles

A lightweight node.js module to recursively read files in a directory using ES6 Promises.

Installation

npm install node-readfiles

Usage

You can safely add readfiles anywhere in your project.

var readfiles = require('node-readfiles');

Promise(files): readfiles(dir, [options], [callback])

Asynchronusly read the files in a directory returning a Promise.

dir

A relative or absolute path of the directory to read files.

options

An optional object parameter with the following properties:

• reverse: a boolean value that reverses the order of the list of files before traversing them (defaults to false)
• filenameFormat: one of readfiles.FULL_PATH, readfiles.RELATIVE, or readfiles.FILENAME, whether the callback's returns the full-path, relative-path or only the filenames of the traversed files. (default is readfiles.RELATIVE)
• rejectOnError: a boolean value whether to stop and trigger the "doneCallback" when an error occurs (defaults to true)
• filter: a string, or an array of strings of path expression that match the files being read (defaults to '**')
  • ? matches one character
  • * matches zero or more characters
  • ** matches zero or more 'directories' in a path
• readContents: a boolean value whether to read the file contents when traversing the files ^[1] (defaults to true)
• encoding: a string with the encoding used when reading a file (defaults to 'utf8')
• depth: an integer value which limits the number sub-directories levels to traverse for the given path where -1 is infinte, and 0 is none (defaults to -1)
• hidden: a boolean value whether to include hidden files prefixed with a . (defaults to false)

callback(err, filename, content, stat)

The optional callback function is triggered everytime a file is found. If there's an error while reading the file the err parameter will contain the error that occured, When readContents is true, the contents parameter will be populated with the contents of the file encoded using the encoding option. For convenience the stat result object is passed to the callback for you to use.

[1] The contents parameter will be null when the readContents option is false.

Asynchronous Callback

When working with asynchronous operations, you can simply return a function (next) { ... } which will enabled you to completed your asynchronous operation until you call next().

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', function (err, filename, content, stat) {
  if (err) throw err;
  return function (next) {
    setTimeout(function () {
      console.log('File ' + filename);
      next();
    }, 3000);
  };
});

Promise(files)

When calling readfiles, an ES6 Promise is returned with an array of all the files that were found. You can then call then or catch to see if readfiles encountered an error.

var readfiles = require('node-readfiles');

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
}).catch(function (err) {
  console.log('Error reading files:', err.message);
});

Examples

The default behavior, is to recursively list all files in a directory. By default readfiles will exclude all dot files.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
  console.log(files.join('\n'));
});

Read all files in a directory, excluding sub-directories.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', {
  depth: 0
}, function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
  console.log(files.join('\n'));
});

The above can also be accomplished using the filter option.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', {
  filter: '*' // instead of the default '**'
}, function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
  console.log(files.join('\n'));
});

Recursively read all files with "txt" extension in a directory and display the contents.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', {
  filter: '*.txt'
}, function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
});

Recursively read all files with that match "t?t" in a directory and display the contents.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', {
  filter: '*.t?t'
}, function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename + ':');
  console.log(content);
}).then(function (files) {
  console.log('Read ' + files.length + ' file(s)');
});

Recursively list all json files in a directory including all sub-directories, without reading the files.

readfiles('/path/to/dir/', {
  filter: '*.json',
  readContents: false
}, function (err, filename, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('File ' + filename);
});

License

MIT licensed (See LICENSE.txt)