output-files VS with-local-tmp-dir

Compare output-files vs with-local-tmp-dir and see what are their differences.

output-files

Output a tree of files and directories by providing an object. Especially useful for testing with real files. (by dword-design)

with-local-tmp-dir

Creates a temporary folder inside cwd, cds inside the folder, runs a function, and removes the folder. Especially useful for testing. (by dword-design)
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output-files with-local-tmp-dir
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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output-files

Posts with mentions or reviews of output-files. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.
  • How to Write File-Based Tests With Real Files
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2021
    I also wrote another helper package output-files that creates a whole file tree at once by passing an object. It's much easier than writing a lot of fs.writeFile calls to create many files.

with-local-tmp-dir

Posts with mentions or reviews of with-local-tmp-dir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.
  • How to Write File-Based Tests With Real Files
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2021
    Why not use real files for testing instead of mocking? I built an NPM package called with-local-tmp-dir that basically creates a temporary subfolder inside cwd, cds into it, runs a function, and cds back to the previous cwd afterwards. In this function you can create files and pretty much anything, run your unit under test. Afterwards the folder is removed and everything is cleaned up. You actually do not solely need to use it for tests, you can use it anywhere, but it's mostly useful for tests.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing output-files and with-local-tmp-dir you can also consider the following projects:

jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.

mock-fs - Configurable mock for the fs module

endent - ⬅️ An ES6 string tag makes indentation better

sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles - Generate vector tiles for the entire planet on relatively low spec hardware.

expect - Write better assertions

watcher - The file system watcher that strives for perfection, with no native dependencies and optional rename detection support.

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()