Dir2Obj

Node package for turning directory structures into plain ol' Javascript objects and vice versa.

Issues should be reported on the issue tracker.

dir2obj is intended as a complement to git for boilerplate projects.

git ignores empty directories and empty files (see here). This presents a problem when creating project boilerplates. Should you create dummy files in required directories and have the user delete these files, or have the end user learn about the required directories and create them?

dir2obj is an easy, light-weight solution for creating directory structures and empty files. See below for example uses.

Installation

npm install --save-dev dir2obj

Example usage

In your boilerplate's gulpfile:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    dir2obj = require('dir2obj'),
    directoryStructure = require('../dev/directory-structure.json');

gulp.task('create-dirs', function(cb) {
  dir2obj(directoryStructure).then(function() {
    cb();
  });
});

And on the command line

git clone [your repo]
npm install
gulp create-dirs

API

dir2obj.dir2obj(dir, opt)

Returns: promise

This promise resolves with an object representation of the directory. Files are empty strings and folders are directories.

dir

Type: string
Default: .

Directory to recurse.

opt

Type: object
Default: {}

Ignored for now. Will be fleshed out soon.

dir2obj.obj2dir(obj, dir, opt)

Returns: promise

This promise resolves when the directory structure has been created.

obj

Type: object
Default: {}

The object, with objects being turned into directories and everything else being turned into files.

dir

Type: string
Default: .

The directory into which to touch files and create directories.

opt

Type: object
Default: {}

Ignored for now. Will be fleshed out soon with configuration settings for handling errors, etc.

dir2obj.constants

dir2obj.constants.emptyDirectory

Value: {}

dir2obj.constants.file

Value: ''

To do

• Better exception handling (symlinks, files existing, etc.)
• More config options
• Command line options

License

MIT