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handle module specific configurations in their own directory
npm install confdir
or npm install -g confdir
For example anywhere in a Git repository you could get a reference to the .git
directory:
var confdir = require('confdir');
confdir(__dirname, 'git', function (err, dir) {
if (err)
console.log(err);
else
console.log("The Git files are in " + dir);
});
This would print an absolute reference to the .git
directory.
confdir is only one method:
confdir(dir, name, callback)
where
dir
is a reference to a directory, that will be walked up,name
is the name of the configuration directory (without the dot) andcallback
is a callback function that takes two arguments (err, dir)
.If you encounter any bugs or issues, feel free to open an issue at github.
This package is licensed under the MIT license.
FAQs
manage module specific configuration files in their own directory
We found that confdir demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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