Node.js Filesystem

24 Filesystem modules and projects

• fs-extra

  8.3 4.2 JavaScript

  Extra methods for the fs module.

• chokidar

  8.2 6.4 L3 JavaScript

  Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on OS X.

• rimraf

  7.2 0.7 L4 JavaScript

  Recursively delete files like rm -rf.

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• mkdirp

  6.4 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.

• globby

  5.9 2.3 L5 JavaScript

  Glob files with support for multiple patterns.

• graceful-fs

  5.4 1.1 L4 JavaScript

  Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.

• del

  5.4 3.2 JavaScript

  Delete files/folders using globs.

• fs-jetpack

  4.5 7.5 L5 TypeScript

  Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.

• make-dir

  4.0 3.5 JavaScript

  Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.

• find-up

  3.7 2.3 L5 JavaScript

  Find a file by walking up parent directories.

• filenamify

  3.4 3.0 JavaScript

  Convert a string to a valid filename.

• tempy

  3.2 4.3 JavaScript

  Get a random temporary file or directory path.

• load-json-file

  3.0 1.4 JavaScript

  Read and parse a JSON file.

• write-json-file

  2.7 0.4 JavaScript

  Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.

• Filehound

  2.7 2.1 L4 JavaScript

  Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system

• proper-lockfile

  2.7 0.0 L4 JavaScript

  Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.

• move-file

  2.4 1.4 JavaScript

  Move a file, even works across devices.

• pkg-dir

  2.4 2.8 JavaScript

  Find the root directory of an npm package.

• sander

  2.0 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Promise-based replacement for the fs module.

• fs-write-stream-atomic

  2.0 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.

• istextorbinary

  1.6 7.5 L4 TypeScript

  Check if a file is text or binary.

• FileSniffer

  0.6 0.0 L5 TypeScript

  Find files and matching content

• lnfs

  0.6 0.0 JavaScript

  Force create symlinks like ln -fs.

• Watch-fn

  0.3 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Watch files and react upon changes

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