fixturify-project

What is fixturify-project?

The fixturify-project npm package is a utility for creating and managing file system fixtures in a programmatic way. It is particularly useful for testing and development purposes, allowing you to easily set up and tear down file system states.

What are fixturify-project's main functionalities?

Creating a new project

This feature allows you to create a new project with a specified structure. In this example, a new project named 'my-app' is created with a single file 'index.js' containing a simple console log statement.

const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('my-app', {
  files: {
    'index.js': 'console.log("Hello, world!");'
  }
});
project.writeSync();

Adding files to an existing project

This feature allows you to add new files to an existing project. In this example, a new file 'new-file.js' is added to the 'my-app' project with a console log statement.

const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('my-app');
project.files['new-file.js'] = 'console.log("New file");';
project.writeSync();

Reading project files

This feature allows you to read the files of an existing project. In this example, the files of the 'my-app' project are read and logged to the console.

const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('my-app');
project.readSync();
console.log(project.files);

Deleting files from a project

This feature allows you to delete files from an existing project. In this example, the 'index.js' file is deleted from the 'my-app' project.

const { Project } = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('my-app');
delete project.files['index.js'];
project.writeSync();

Other packages similar to fixturify-project

mock-fs

The mock-fs package allows you to mock the file system in Node.js. It is useful for testing purposes, as it lets you create, read, and manipulate a virtual file system without affecting the real file system. Compared to fixturify-project, mock-fs focuses more on mocking the file system for testing rather than creating and managing project structures.

memfs

The memfs package provides an in-memory file system that can be used for testing and development. It allows you to create, read, and manipulate files and directories in memory. Compared to fixturify-project, memfs is more focused on providing an in-memory file system rather than managing project structures.

fs-extra

The fs-extra package extends the native Node.js file system module with additional methods for easier file and directory manipulation. It includes methods for copying, moving, and removing files and directories. Compared to fixturify-project, fs-extra provides more general file system utilities rather than focusing on project structure management.

README

node-fixturify-project

A complementary project to node-fixturify

When implementing JS build tooling it is common to have complete projects as fixture data. Unfortunately fixtures commited to disk can be somewhat to maintain and augment.

The node-fixturify library is a great way to co-locate tests and their file system fixture information. This project embraces node-fixturify, but aims to reduce the verbosity when building graphs of node modules and dependencies.

Usage

yarn add node-fixturify-project

const Project = require('fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('rsvp', '3.1.4');

project.addDependency('mocha', '5.2.0');
project.addDependency('chai', '5.2.0');

project.addFile('index.js', 'module.exports = "Hello, World!"');

project.writeSync('some/root/');

Which the following files (and most importantly the appropriate file contents:

some/root/rsvp/package.json
some/root/rsvp/index.js
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/mocha/package.json
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/chai/package.json

One can also produce JSON, which can be used directly by node-fixturify:

// continued from above
const fixturify = require('fixturify');

fixturify.writeSync('some/other/root', project.toJSON());

Adanced

Obviously nested dependencies are common, and are not only supported but somewhat ergonomics:

const Project = require('node-fixturify-project');
const project = new Project('rsvp', '3.1.4');

// version 1
project.addDependecy('a', '1.2.3', a => a.addDependency('d', '3.2.1'));

// version 2
let b = project.addDependecy('b', '3.2.3');
let c = b.addDependency('c', '4.4.4');

// and this works recurisively:
let e = c.addDependency('e', '5.4.4');

project.writeSync('some/root/');

Which produces:

some/root/rsvp/package.json
some/root/rsvp/index.js
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/a/package.json
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/a/node_modules/d/package.json
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/b/package.json
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/b/node_modules/c/package.json
some/root/rsvp/node_modules/b/node_modules/c/node_modules/e/package.json

Other API

• Project.fromJSON(json, name) consume a given project from JSON
• Project.fromDir(root, name) consume a given project from disk, assuming it has been written to by Project.prototype.writeSync(root);
• Project.prototype.clone() deep clone a given project
• Project.prototype.readSync(root) assumes the state of the given root (symmetrical to Project.prototype.writeSync(root))
• Project.prototype.writeSync(root) writes the project to disk at root
• Project.prototype.addDependency(name, version) add a dependency to the given project
• Project.prototype.addDevDependency(name, version) add a devDependency to the given project