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vinyl-fs
Vinyl adapter for the file system.
What is Vinyl?
Vinyl is a very simple metadata object that describes a file. When you think of a file, two attributes come to mind: path
and contents
. These are the main attributes on a Vinyl object. A file does not necessarily represent something on your computer’s file system. You have files on S3, FTP, Dropbox, Box, CloudThingly.io and other services. Vinyl can be used to describe files from all of these sources.
What is a Vinyl Adapter?
While Vinyl provides a clean way to describe a file, we now need a way to access these files. Each file source needs what I call a "Vinyl adapter". A Vinyl adapter simply exposes a src(globs)
and a dest(folder)
method. Each return a stream. The src
stream produces Vinyl objects, and the dest
stream consumes Vinyl objects. Vinyl adapters can expose extra methods that might be specific to their input/output medium, such as the symlink
method vinyl-fs
provides.
Usage
var map = require('map-stream');
var vfs = require('vinyl-fs');
var log = function(file, cb) {
console.log(file.path);
cb(null, file);
};
vfs.src(['./js/**/*.js', '!./js/vendor/*.js'])
.pipe(map(log))
.pipe(vfs.dest('./output'));
API
src(globs[, options])
Takes a glob string or an array of glob strings as the first argument and an options object as the second.
Returns a stream of vinyl File
objects.
Note: UTF-8 BOM will be stripped from all UTF-8 files read with .src
unless disabled in the options.
Globs
Globs are executed in order, so negations should follow positive globs.
For example:
fs.src(['!b*.js', '*.js'])
would not exclude any files, but the following would:
fs.src(['*.js', '!b*.js'])
Options
options.cwd
The working directory the folder is relative to.
Type: String
Default: process.cwd()
options.base
The folder relative to the cwd. This is used to determine the file names when saving in .dest()
.
Type: String
Default: The part of the path before the glob (if any) begins. For example, path/to/**/*.js
would resolve to path/to
. If there is no glob (i.e. a file path with no pattern), then the dirname of the path is used. For example, path/to/some/file.js
would resolve to path/to/some
.
options.buffer
Whether or not you want to buffer the file contents into memory. Setting to false
will make file.contents
a paused Stream.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
options.read
Whether or not you want the file to be read at all. Useful for stuff like removing files. Setting to false
will make file.contents
null
and will disable writing the file to disk via .dest()
.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
options.since
Only streams files that have been modified since the time specified.
Type: Date
or Number
Default: undefined
options.stripBOM
Causes the BOM to be stripped on UTF-8 encoded files. Set to false
if you need the BOM for some reason.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
options.passthrough
Allows .src
to be used in the middle of a pipeline (using a duplex stream) which passes through all objects received and adds all files globbed to the stream.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
options.sourcemaps
Enables sourcemap support on files passed through the stream. Will load inline sourcemaps and resolve sourcemap links from files. Uses gulp-sourcemaps under the hood.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
options.followSymlinks
- true
if you want
Whether or not to recursively resolve symlinks to their targets. Setting to false
to preserve them as symlinks and make file.symlink
equal the original symlink's target path.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
other
Any glob-related options are documented in glob-stream and node-glob. Any through2-related options are documented in through2.
dest(folder[, options])
Takes a folder path string or a function as the first argument and an options object as the second. If given a function, it will be called with each vinyl File
object and must return a folder path.
Returns a stream that accepts vinyl File
objects, writes them to disk at the folder/cwd specified, and passes them downstream so you can keep piping these around.
Once the file is written to disk, an attempt is made to determine if the stat.mode
, stat.mtime
and stat.atime
of the vinyl File
object differ from the file on the filesystem.
If they differ and the running process owns the file, the corresponding filesystem metadata is updated.
If they don't differ or the process doesn't own the file, the attempt is skipped silently.
This functionality is disabled on Windows operating systems or any other OS that doesn't support process.getuid
or process.geteuid
in node. This is due to Windows having very unexpected results through usage of fs.fchmod
and fs.futimes
.
If the file has a symlink
attribute specifying a target path, then a symlink will be created.
Note: The file will be modified after being written to this stream.
cwd
,base
, andpath
will be overwritten to match the folder.stat
will be updated to match the file on the filesystem.contents
will have it's position reset to the beginning if it is a stream.
Options
options.cwd
The working directory the folder is relative to.
Type: String
Default: process.cwd()
options.base
The folder relative to the cwd. This is used to determine the file names when saving in .dest()
. Can also be a function that takes in a file and returns a folder path.
Type: String
or Function
Default: The cwd
resolved to the folder path.
options.mode
The mode the files should be created with.
Type: Number
Default: The mode
of the input file (file.stat.mode
) if any, or the process mode if the input file has no mode
property.
options.dirMode
The mode the directory should be created with.
Type: Number
Default: The process mode
.
options.overwrite
Whether or not existing files with the same path should be overwritten. Can also be a function that takes in a file and returns true
or false
.
Type: Boolean
or Function
Default: true
(always overwrite existing files)
options.sourcemaps
Enables sourcemap support on files passed through the stream. Will write inline soucemaps if specified as true
.
Specifying a string
is shorthand for the path option. Uses gulp-sourcemaps under the hood.
Examples:
// Write as inline comments
vfs.dest('./', {
sourcemaps: true
});
// Write as files in the same folder
vfs.dest('./', {
sourcemaps: '.'
});
// Any other options are passed through to [gulp-sourcemaps]
vfs.dest('./', {
sourcemaps: {
path: '.',
addComment: false,
includeContent: false
}
});
Type: Boolean
, String
or Object
Default: undefined
(do not write sourcemaps)
other
Any through2-related options are documented in through2.
symlink(folder[, options])
Takes a folder path string or a function as the first argument and an options object as the second. If given a function, it will be called with each vinyl File
object and must return a folder path.
Returns a stream that accepts vinyl File
objects, create a symbolic link (i.e. symlink) at the folder/cwd specified, and passes them downstream so you can keep piping these around.
Note: The file will be modified after being written to this stream.
cwd
,base
, andpath
will be overwritten to match the folder.
Options
options.cwd
The working directory the folder is relative to.
Type: String
Default: process.cwd()
options.base
The folder relative to the cwd. This is used to determine the file names when saving in .symlink()
. Can also be a function that takes in a file and returns a folder path.
Type: String
or Function
Default: The cwd
resolved to the folder path.
options.dirMode
The mode the directory should be created with.
Type: Number
Default: The process mode.
other
Any through2-related options are documented in through2.