ensure-dir

• 📁 Lightweight package that ensures that the directory at the given path exists. Creates it recursively if it doesn't. Prevents "File Not Found" errors when saving files.
• ♻️ Works seamlessly with CommonJS, ESM and TypeScript

📦 Install via NPM

$ npm i ensure-dir-tiny

💻 Usage

• See examples below

CommonJS

const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');
const ensureDirTiny = require('ensure-dir-tiny');

const testDir = path.join(__dirname, 'demo/a/b/c');

console.log('Creating directory:', testDir);
ensureDirTiny(testDir);

if (fs.existsSync(testDir)) {
    console.log('✅ Directory exists — module works');
} else {
    console.log('❌ Directory not created');
}

// --| Run again to test idempotency
ensureDirTiny(testDir);
console.log('✅ Called twice without crashing');

ESM

import path from 'path';
import fs from 'fs';
import ensureDirTiny from 'ensure-dir-tiny';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

// __dirname replacement in ESM
const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);

const testDir = path.join(__dirname, 'demo/a/b/c');

console.log('Creating directory:', testDir);
ensureDirTiny(testDir);

if (fs.existsSync(testDir)) {
    console.log('✅ Directory exists — module works');
} else {
    console.log('❌ Directory not created');
}

// --| Run again to test idempotency
ensureDirTiny(testDir);
console.log('✅ Called twice without crashing');

TypeScript

import path from 'path';
import fs from 'fs';
import ensureDirTiny from 'ensure-dir-tiny';

const testDir: string = path.join(__dirname, 'demo/a/b/c');
console.log('Creating directory:', testDir);

ensureDirTiny(testDir);

if (fs.existsSync(testDir)) {
    console.log('✅ Directory exists — module works');
} else {
    console.log('❌ Directory not created');
}

// --| Run again to test idempotency
ensureDirTiny(testDir);
console.log('✅ Called twice without crashing');