tree-web

"tree is a recursive directory listing command or program that produces a depth-indented listing of files." wikipedia

tree-web is a npm package (@sctlib/tree-web) used to create a web page from the output of the tree saved as JSON

Get started

1. Install the dependencies, tree and node (install with nvm)
2. Create a new folder for a new website project mkdir new-website
3. Move inside the new directory, cd new-website
4. Use the npm command npx @sctlib/tree-web
5. Use npx serve out, to see the result locally
6. deploy the out folder, or use the .gitlab-ci.yml file to automate deployment of result as a static page.

Files

Some files can be used to customize the behavior and output of the program.

All these files can be used in nested directories, for local behaviors

.gitignore

Use by git to ignore files, which will also be ignored by tree and tree-web.

.info

Output information about the files and folder (see .info in this repository file and man tree).

.treeignore

A file to list ignored files and folders, behaves like .gitignore (see .tree-web file in this repository).

Use tree

The default tree command, can generate an output to render in the command line shell (default behavior), in HTML (-H), or in JSON.

# output an index.html file from the HTML output of tree
# -I stands for ignore, -T title, -H for the baseHREF & turns on HTML
# -C colorisation, for --prune check the tree man page
tree -C -I '**.css|**.js' --prune -H "https://sctlib.gitlab.io/tree-website/" -T "My tree-website" > index.html

# serve the local site
npx server .

This project uses the JSON output, saved together with the HTML and Javascriptcode that will run the website, in the ./out folder.