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node-fixturify-project
When implementing JS build tooling it is common to have complete projects as fixture data. Unfortunately fixtures committed to disk can be somewhat to maintain and augment.
Basic Usage
yarn add fixturify-project
const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('rsvp', '3.1.4', {
files: {
'index.js': 'module.exports = "Hello, World!"',
},
});
project.addDependency('mocha', '5.2.0');
project.addDependency('chai', '5.2.0');
project.pkg; // => the contents of package.json for the given project
project.files; // => read or write the set of files further
// if you don't set this, a new temp dir will be made for you when you writeSync()
project.baseDir = 'some/root/';
project.writeSync();
// after writeSync(), you can read project.baseDir even if you didn't set it
expect(fs.existsSync(join(project.baseDir, 'index.js'))).to.eql(true);
The above example produces the following files (and most importantly the appropriate file contents:
some/root/package.json
some/root/index.js
some/root/node_modules/mocha/package.json
some/root/node_modules/chai/package.json
Nesting Dependencies
addDependency
returns another Project
instance, so you can nest arbitrarily deep:
const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
let project = new Project('rsvp');
let a = project.addDependency('a');
let b = a.addDependency('b');
let c = b.addDependency('c');
project.writeSync();
Which produces:
$TMPDIR/xxx/package.json
$TMPDIR/xxx/index.js
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/a/package.json
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/a/node_modules/b/package.json
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/b/node_modules/b/node_modules/c/package.json
Linking to real dependencies
Instead of creating all packages from scratch, you can link to real preexisting packages. This lets you take a real working package and modify it and its dependencies and watch how it behaves.
const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
let project = new Project();
let a = project.addDependency('a');
// explicit target
project.linkDependency('b', { target: '/example/b' });
// this will follow node resolution rules to lookup "c" from "../elsewhere"
project.linkDependency('c', { baseDir: '/example' });
// this will follow node resolution rules to lookup "my-aliased-name" from "../elsewhere"
project.linkDependency('d', { baseDir: '/example', resolveName: 'my-aliased-name' });
project.writeSync();
Produces:
$TMPDIR/xxx/package.json
$TMPDIR/xxx/index.js
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/a/package.json
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/a/node_modules/b -> /example/b
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/b/node_modules/c -> /example/node_modules/c
$TMPDIR/xxx/node_modules/b/node_modules/d -> /example/node_modules/my-aliased-name
When constructing a whole Project from a directory, you can choose to link all dependencies instead of copying them in as Projects:
let project = Project.fromDir('./sample-project', { linkDeps: true });
project.files['extra.js'] = '// stuff';
project.write();
This will generate a new copy of sample-project, with symlinks to all its original dependencies, but with "extra.js" added.
By default, linkDeps
will only link up dependencies
(which is appropriate
for libraries). If you want to also include devDependencies
(which is
appropriate for apps) you can use linkDevDeps
instead.