Node.js Filesystem

24 Filesystem modules and projects

• chokidar

  8.4 4.6 L3 JavaScript

  Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

• fs-extra

  8.4 5.2 JavaScript

  Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()

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• rimraf

  7.3 3.0 L4 JavaScript

  A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

• mkdirp

  6.3 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`, but in node.js

• globby

  6.1 7.4 L5 JavaScript

  User-friendly glob matching

• graceful-fs

  5.4 5.7 L4 JavaScript

  fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE

• del

  5.3 4.3 JavaScript

  Delete files and directories

• fs-jetpack

  4.6 5.2 L5 TypeScript

  Better file system API for Node.js

• find-up

  4.1 3.9 L5 JavaScript

  Find a file or directory by walking up parent directories

• make-dir

  3.9 0.0 JavaScript

  Make a directory and its parents if needed - Think `mkdir -p`

• filenamify

  3.8 5.3 JavaScript

  Convert a string to a valid safe filename

• tempy

  3.4 4.0 JavaScript

  Get a random temporary file or directory path

• load-json-file

  3.0 2.3 JavaScript

  Read and parse a JSON file

• write-json-file

  2.8 2.0 JavaScript

  Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically

• proper-lockfile

  2.8 0.0 L4 JavaScript

  An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.
  

• pkg-dir

  2.6 2.3 JavaScript

  Find the root directory of a Node.js project or npm package

• Filehound

  2.6 4.3 L4 JavaScript

  Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system

• move-file

  2.4 2.3 JavaScript

  Move a file - Even works across devices

• sander

  2.0 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Promise-based power tool for common filesystem tasks

• fs-write-stream-atomic

  2.0 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Like `fs.createWriteStream(...)`, but atomic.
  

• istextorbinary

  1.7 0.0 L4 TypeScript

  Determine if a filename and/or buffer is text or binary. Smarter detection than the other solutions.
  

• FileSniffer

  0.7 0.0 L5 TypeScript

  Find files by matching content

• lnfs

  0.7 0.0 JavaScript

  Safely force create symlinks

• Watch-fn

  0.3 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  Watch files and react upon changes

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