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Safely renaming/moving files in Node (cross platform)
My goal is to create a function that safely renames files by adding numeric increments if the file is found at the destination, without using a third party library.
Having a source file ...
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NodeJS CLI script to create React apps
Background
I crated a CLI tool which executes an npm command (to create a react app) and modifies the contents of the generated files. It was a practice attempt at ...
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Reading image files asynchronously and displaying them on the page
I am trying to display images from a folder in my project using the "fs" module with NodeJS. I need to read all images in a directory and run them in a loop for them to be displayed. I was able to do ...
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Static site generator using JavaScript Promises
I have created a small static site generator (for learning purposes) in Javascript ES6, using Promises, but I am not certain of how to use them well. The code below works fine, but I wonder if i can't ...
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Best way to retrieve music metadata from audio files?
I am using the music metadata-browser npm package to retrieve audio metadata from files. This library is being used in an Electron and React desktop app.
To get the metadata of audio files, (and add ...
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OOP implementation of in-memory file system
I was working on this problem, where I am constructing a Object Oriented structure of file system where you can have Directories and Files. The Directories could have sub Directories and files.
I ...
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Git hook written on JavaScript
As in many teams, me and my coworkers are putting ticket number into beginning of each commit message. If your branches are starting with ticket number it is easy to create ...
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Scanning directories and caching paths to an array
What am I trying to do
I'm trying to scan a disk and save (cache) all the paths of files and directories into an array so that I could perform a quick file/directory search later on.
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"Quick" save in electron with a conformation dialog
I have implemented a "quick" save for my electron app. There has to be a better way to achieve what I am doing.
The MessageBox will always be triggered on a save ...
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Recursively find TypeScript files imported/exported from an entry point
I'd like to know what's the best practice as functional programming in JavaScript to work with arrays and passing them as an argument to a recursive function that may run itself within its branch.
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Generate next available filename based on current date
I have a bit of code that I would like your collective opinions on. Currently, my working code has two return statements. I'm not sure how I feel about having multiple points of exit, however, the ...
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Generate a nested structure based on a list of file paths
I'm currently working on a small application, as a learning exercise for a Javascript novice. I need to generate an object based on a folder structure. Here is an example of the folder structure:
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nodeJS, fs, path - creating new directorties
I wrote this function that takes 2 arguments - the path to an existing file - file, and the newRoot name. The function splits ...
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Recursively list files in provided directory in the style of `npm ls`
I've written a small CLI node program to list the contents of a directory with an output similar to that provided by npm ls but listing both files and directories, ...
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Optionally creating a directory path based based on existence in NodeJS
I've been doing some reading and tutorials. As such I've contrived a node based project to apply what I've learned. I thought this was a good example as it had some conditional async calls and error ...
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