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Context API

The Context object is passed to the generator callback.

Properties

root

The root directory for all file operations.

isWatchMode

Whether the generator is running in watch mode.

signal

An AbortSignal object that your generator should pass to any asynchronous operations that should be interruptable.

When a watched path is affected during a generator run, the signal will be aborted.

changes

An array of FileChange objects describing the files that were modified, added, or deleted between the current generator run and the previous one.

Each FileChange object has the following properties:

  • event: The type of change, which is one of 'change', 'add', or 'unlink'.
  • file: The path of the file that was changed, relative to the root directory.

This array is not updated while the generator is running.

store

An in-memory, key-value store that your generator can use to share data between runs.

If a critical file is touched, the store is reset.

File

The constructor for the File class, with the current context pre-bound.

For more information, see the File API.

 

Methods

dedent(string)

Remove excess indentation from a string or tagged template literal.

Multi-line strings are supported.

const code = dedent`
  console.log('Hello, world!')
`
// => "console.log('Hello, world!');"

Tip

If you'd like syntax highlighting for your template literals, check out the Comment Tagged Templates VSCode extension.

const code = dedent/* ts */ `
  console.log('Hello, world!')
`

emit(event)

Emit a custom event. The event is an object with a type property and any other properties you want to include.

For type safety, you'll want to define a type alias for all possible custom events, then provide that to jumpgen(…) as the TEvent type parameter.

fs.directoryExists(path)

Check if a directory exists. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory. It gets watched for addDir and unlinkDir events. Its contents are not watched.

fs.exists(path)

Check if a path exists (could be a file, directory, symlink, or whatever). The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory. It gets watched for add, addDir, unlink, and unlinkDir events. Its contents are not watched.

fs.fileExists(path)

Check if a file exists. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory. It gets watched for add and unlink events. Its contents are not watched.

fs.findUp(glob, options?)

Traverse up the directory tree looking for a path matching the given glob pattern(s). If no match is found, the result is null. Otherwise, a matching path relative to the root directory is returned.

Every traversed directory is watched for changes.

Arguments

  • The glob argument may be a string or an array of strings, each of which is a glob pattern that can be prefixed with ! to exclude it.
    • Globstars (**) and separators (/) are not allowed.
  • The options argument may be an object that may include:
    • any picomatch options
    • stop: used to limit the search
    • cwd: controls the starting directory for the search

Notes

  • By default, the search stops at the generator's root directory.
  • If options.stop is an absolute path, the search will stop at that directory.
  • If options.stop is a function, it will stop at the first directory where that function returns true.
  • If options.stop is a string or array of strings, the search will stop at the first directory where any matching paths are found.
  • Globs used as a stop pattern should not include globstars (**) or separators (/).

fs.list(path, options?)

List the children of a directory. The directory is allowed to be a relative path. In watch mode, the directory will be watched for changes (but not recursively). The contents of its children are not watched.

You may want to filter the list of files using the glob option, if you're only interested in a subset of the directory's contents. Doing so prevents unnecessary re-runs of the generator.

fs.lstat(path)

Retrieve the fs.Stats object for a path. Unlike fs.stat, symbolic links are not followed beforehand. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory.

The path is watched as if you called fs.read(path). This is necessary because the fs.Stats object contains information about the file's size. You may prefer symlinkExists() instead if you don't need the size information.

If the path does not exist, null is returned.

fs.read(path, options?)

Read the contents of a file. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory.

The options argument may be an object, an BufferEncoding string, or null (the default encoding, which returns a Buffer object). The following options are supported:

  • encoding: The encoding to use when reading the file.
  • flag: The file open mode.
  • critical: When true, the file is marked as critical. If this file is later modified, the generator is reset. See Critical files.

To read a file as a string, the typical encoding of utf8 should be passed as the encoding option.

fs.scan(glob, options?)

Recursively scan a directory, looking for paths matching the given glob pattern(s). Relevant directories and matching paths are watched for changes.

Arguments

  • The glob argument may be a string or an array of strings, each of which is a glob pattern that can be prefixed with ! to exclude it.
  • The options argument may be an object that includes:
    • any tinyglobby options
    • watch: If explicitly set to false, the globs won't be watched when watch mode is active

fs.stat(path)

Retrieve the fs.Stats object for a path. Unlike fs.lstat, symbolic links are followed beforehand. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory.

The path is watched as if you called fs.read(path). This is necessary because the fs.Stats object contains information about the file's size. You may prefer exists() instead if you don't need the size information.

If the path does not exist, null is returned.

fs.symlinkExists(path)

Check if a symbolic link exists. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory. The path is watched for add and unlink events.

fs.tryRead(path)

Same as fs.read, but returns null if the file does not exist. This is more efficient than calling fs.exists() and fs.read() in succession.

fs.watch(path, options?)

Watch one or more paths like fs.read does, but without loading them into memory. Each path may be absolute or relative to the root directory. Globs are not supported by this method.

The options argument may be an object that may include:

  • cause: One or more files to blame for this call. Also known as associative watching, this is useful when third party code is accessing files in a way you can't control. Learn more in the Blamed Files section.

fs.write(path, content)

Write content to a file. The path may be absolute or relative to the root directory.

This emits a write event with the generator's event emitter.