rimraf VS fs-extra

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

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.

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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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:

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.

Also, rimraf seems to be popular.

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

fixpack: To order and clean package.json files fx: To see and interact with .json files in the terminal. live-server: A development server with live reload for HTML, CSS and Javascript. rimraf: For removing files and stuff.

It's somewhat unfortunate because there is wasted effort in the node.js world to provide javascript (or C++ native module) equivalents to unix commands, like the rimraf package. It's a bit silly at this point that npm doesn't just say in the spec that it only supports POSIX systems — all of these tools are easily accessible from Windows and there's not much reason anymore not to do dev from WSL.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

fs-extra to read files after running the scaffolding tool.

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