makedir

makedir

Recursively and asyncronously make directories in node.js.

I needed this to make RESTful file system caches of rather expensive-to-create database queries on a web server. Other solutions couldn't handle multiple simultaneous creates that you get from asyncronous operation.

To run the test, such as it is

 npm install -d

Then

 make test

Because I haven't figure out how to put this in the Makefile yet, you'll have to remove the created directories manually. Sorry about that

rm makedirtests/ -rf
rm /tmp/makedirtests/ -rf

To use, just pass the directory that you want to make. It will climb up the directory tree until it finds something that exist, and then will recursively create all of the directories that are needed. Pass it a callback to do something with that directory once it is created. For example

var makedir = require('makedir');
var p = '/home/james/some/crazy/long/path'
function doSomethingToPath(path){
      return function(err){
          if(err) throw new Error (err);
              console.log('made '+path);
      };
};
makedir.makedir(p,doSomethingToPath(p));