DEPRECATED

fs-extra has a promise-based API as of v4.0.0. TypeScript-friendly.

fs-p

fs-p is a TypeScript-friendly promise-based wrapper on top of fs-extra package.

Why?

Previously, there was no TypeScript-friendly promise-based fs-extra implementation. Now there is.

Installation

npm install --save fs-p or yarn add fs-p

Usage

fs-p api is no different from fs-extra, except, async methods are wrapped in Promises. Check out the original fs-extra documentation.

Promise-based async

Most methods are async and return Promises, unlike the original fs-extra callback-based implementaion.

Sync methods, on the other hand, will throw if an error occurs.

fs-p vs fs-extra

Methods with no return value example:

1import * as fs from 'fs-extra'
2import * as fsp from 'fs-p'
3
4// fs-extra callback style
5fs.copy('/tmp/myfile', '/tmp/mynewfile', (err: Error) => {
6  if (err) return console.error(err)
7  console.log("success!")
8}) // copies file
9
10// fs-p promise-based
11fsp.copy('/tmp/mydir', '/tmp/mynewdir').then(
12  () => console.log('success!')
13).catch((err) => console.error(err))
14
15// fs-p async/await
16try {
17  await fsp.copy('/tmp/mydir', '/tmp/mynewdir')
18  console.log('success!')
19} catch (err) { console.error(err) }

Methods with a return value:

1import * as fs from 'fs-extra'
2import * as fsp from 'fs-p'
3
4// fs-extra callback style
5fs.readJson('./package.json', (err: Error, packageObj: any) => {
6  console.log(packageObj.version) // => 0.1.3
7})
8
9// fs-p promise-based
10fsp.readJson('./package.json').then(
11  (packageObj: any) => console.log(packageObj.version) // => 0.1.3
12).catch((err) => console.error(err))
13
14// fs-p async/await
15try {
16  const packageObj: any = await fsp.readJson('./package.json')
17  console.log(packageObj.version) // => 0.1.3
18} catch (err) { console.error(err) }

Credits

fs-p is just a small wrapper over a remarkable fs-extra package. Thus, all the credit goes to fs-extra authors

License

Copyright 2017 Grammarly, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.