data-directory

data-directory

This is a Node module for loading structured data from a directory in the style of Jekyll's _data. Install it with:

npm install data-directory

Directory Structure

Your directory should contain one or more files with the following extensions:

• .csv for comma-separated values
• .json for JSON
• .yaml or .yml for YAML

You can read them all into a single data structure like this:

var loadData = require('data-directory');
loadData('_data', function(error, data) {
  if (error) return console.error('error:', error);
  console.log('data:', JSON.stringify(data, null, '  '));
});

Nested Directories

Nested directories will introduce new levels in the data structure. For instance, if you data directory looks like this:

├─ bar.json
└─ baz
   └─ qux.csv

Then it should parse into a JSON structure that looks like:

{
  "bar": {
    // contents of bar.json
  },
  "baz": {
    "qux": [
      // rows in baz/qux.csv
    ]
  }
}