filetree-contents

Access filesystem subtree content via dot notation.

Description

There are two different behaviours for production and non-production.

If NODE_ENV is production, then the module preloads the entire directory structure upon initialization as a JavaScript object with directory/file names as keys and file contents as values. Subdirectories result in nested objects.

Otherwise, if NODE_ENV is any other value, a file is dynamically read upon each request to get an up to date contect without application restart.

Usage

Here is an example of a directory structure with files:

testfiles
├── one
│   └── default.txt
└── second.txt

import loader from 'filetree-contents';

const { files } = await loader({ path: 'testfiles', defaultExtension: '.txt' });

console.log(await files.one.default); // gives content of testfiles/one/default.txt
console.log(await files.second);      // gives content of testfiles/second.txt