freud.js

Freud watches directories and copies files between them. It allows you to modify the file information before rendering using callbacks attached to file extensions.

Err that's confusing, here:

example

var Freud = require('freud')

var freud = Freud('/home/me/src', '/home/me/html')
  , md = require('md')

freud.listen('md', function (file) {
  file.data = md(file.data)
  file.name = file.name.replace(/\.md$/, '.html')
  return file
})

freud.go()

That will watch /home/me/src for changes to files with the .md extension. When there is one, it will run the file contents through md, our theoretical Markdown processor, and change the extension to .html before dumping the mutated file into /home/me/html. Of course the origin file is never modified in any way.

Listen also accepts '*:before' and '*:after' to apply to all processed files. You can probably guess when they occur. If you add a listener with '*', it will be pushed onto the '*:before' stack. Listen also accepts an array of extensions to listen for, like:

freud.listen(['md', 'markdown', 'mkd'], parseFileFunction)

The file object available within your listen statements is of structure:

{
    name: "example.txt"
  , stats: (node fs.Stats object)
  , data: "the file contents"
  , write: true
}

If the file.write property is set to false and never reset to true at any point in the chain of transformations, Freud will not write it to the target directory.

note

Freud does not watch sub-directories. In order to effectively monitor multiple directories, you will need to construct multiple Freud objects.

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options

Freud also accepts an optional third parameter of an options object. The options available are as follows:

• monitorDot to watch for dotfile changes, default is false
• monitorSquiggle to watch for files with names ending with ~, such as are common for backups. Default is false
• ignoreCase to not match case on event/listener matching. Default is false

events

Freud will also emit certain events that may be useful, such as:

• started when the service begins watching.
• stopped when service is stopped (via freud.stop())
• extensionAdded whenever a new extension is being listened for.
• compiling whenever a valid (ie not blocked by user monitoring options and not a duplicate or temporary file) file change event is caught. The filename will be passed.
• compiled after a file has been processed and written to the target directory. The compiled filename will be passed.
• recompiled after a successful compilation triggered by freud.recompile(filename).
• blocked whenever a write to the target has been canceled due to file.write being set to false.
• unlinked when a file has been unlinked due to removal of the file in the source directory.
• copying when a file has no rules it will be copied rather than processed for better performance.
• copied when copying has occurred.

license

MIT