fs-extra
Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs() (by jprichardson)
rimraf
A `rm -rf` util for nodejs (by isaacs)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fs-extra
Posts with mentions or reviews of fs-extra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-08.
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What are some of the best libraries you cannot work without?
I haven't seen fs-extra mentioned yet. For my work it involves a fair bit of reading/writing to the filesystem, so this makes it quite nice to deal with everything in an async way.
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mkdirp module problem
There are a number of these modules, https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra being probably the most famous / popular. It does a better job of explaining the why.
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Re-release fs-extra to properly support esm/cjs usage
Since updating nodejs@18 and switching to esm only, many libraries have been replaced to support esm import, but fs-extra has not been The use of esm is correctly supported, and no suitable replacement has been found. After the a PR proposed by us was rejected, I decided to re-release a [fs-extra-unified] that correctly supports the use of esm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/fs-extra-unified) module.
- Создаем React-компоненты иконок с помощью Figma API и SVGR. Часть 1.
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Is it just me or after updating Foundry sucks?
Are you seriously suggesting the creators of the software can't write a "save elsewhere" function using Electron and JavaScript? The system has versioning so it would be easy to ask the user to create a backup on first loading with a new version of the software, and the copySync function to make a backup. Foundry uses Node.js already.
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Node.js for GIS: from google locations to GeoJSON using Streams
We are dealing with a file that is far too large to be loaded into memory at once. Node cannot buffer the file for us because of the size of it.
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Implement cool features for my static site generator
Implementing those 3 features was quite simple. For metadata and markdown file, I mainly used an external library: showdown to convert from markdown files to html files as well as parsing metadata from markdown files. However, implementing the support for static assets such as images is a bit more interesting. I had to use another external library called fs-extra to copy assets folder from user to the dist folder. I also had to create another new class called CopyFolder where I used fs.copy method to copy assets folder
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Writing JS-based Bash scripts with zx
The zx project implements a shell script executor similar to Bash but using JavaScript modules. It provides an inbuilt asynchronous JavaScript API to call other commands similar to Bash. Besides that, it provides wrapper functions for several Node.js-based command-line helpers such as chalk, minimist, fs-extra, OS, and Readline.
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Why Storing Files in the Database Is Considered Bad Practice
Node.js has the built-in fs module (fs/promises with async/await) which makes it easy to interact with the file system. On top of that, there are a few convenient libraries such as fs-extra and findit that make common tasks straightforward.
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Batch with Node.js
For this purpose we'll use fs-extra since copy/paste seems like not supported by fs API.
rimraf
Posts with mentions or reviews of rimraf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-20.
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The Bun Shell
And npmjs.com will block your IP if you do too many downloads in on day.
Actually is says 86m a week here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
Huge thanks to Isaacs! Rimraf comes to the rescue, providing a reliable solution for deep, recursive removal of folders and files. At PURISTA, we rely on rimraf to maintain pristine build output directories.
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Understanding package.json II: Scripts
Avoid platform-specific commands: Avoid using platform-specific commands in your scripts. Use cross-platform tools like Node.js or Bash to ensure that your scripts work on different platforms. For instance, if you want your npm script to remove a certain directory using the rm -rf command, this would work perfectly on a Linux or Mac machine but would error out on Windows. To avoid this, you can use a cross-platform package such as [rimraf](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf).
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Extended "run all specs" feature for Cypress 10
rimraf
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The minimal setup to package and reuse your React components
Babel will overwrite but not delete any existing files or directories in the output directory. To be sure the lib folder doesn’t contain old files you can delete it before transpiling. To do this automatically you can install rimraf and add it to the transpile script like this:
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4 reasons to avoid using `npm link`
Many packages on npm are designed to make changes to the file-system, such as rimraf or a code linter. In an accident, the consequences of running file-system altering code can be detrimental.
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Help Deleting STONKING File Path (over 3000 char +) WS2016 File Server
Also, rimraf seems to be popular.
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I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
No, that's why there's a bunch of packages such as rimraf[0] that implements that sort of functionality in a cross-platform way that most people use in their scripts
[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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TIFU by accidentally creating over 15 million files on my computer
Something that might work: rimraf. A small node script can churn through file deletion surprisingly fast on Windows. Used to use it to clear out npm packages directories at a greater than glacial pace.
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Said it before, I'll say it again: Software Engineers are poets.
Um actually I use rimraf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fs-extra and rimraf you can also consider the following projects:
graceful-fs - fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE
del - Delete files and directories
fs-jetpack - Better file system API for Node.js
mkdirp - Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`, but in node.js
chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
proper-lockfile - An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.
cross-env
write-json-file - Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically
globby - User-friendly glob matching
move-file - Move a file - Even works across devices