micromatch
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Package description
The micromatch npm package is a fast, minimal glob utility for node.js and JavaScript. It is used to parse, match, and expand glob patterns against strings to filter, validate, or manipulate file paths, names, and other string lists.
Matching glob patterns
Match an array of strings to a glob pattern. In this example, it filters the list to include only files ending with '.js'.
const micromatch = require('micromatch');
const result = micromatch(['foo.js', 'bar.js'], '*.js');
console.log(result); // ['foo.js', 'bar.js']Negating glob patterns
Use negation patterns to exclude matches. This example matches all '.js' files but excludes 'foo.js'.
const micromatch = require('micromatch');
const result = micromatch(['foo.js', 'bar.js', 'baz.txt'], ['*.js', '!foo.js']);
console.log(result); // ['bar.js']Testing a filepath
Test a single filepath against a glob pattern to see if it matches. In this case, 'foobar.js' is a match for '*.js'.
const micromatch = require('micromatch');
const isMatch = micromatch.isMatch('foobar.js', '*.js');
console.log(isMatch); // trueExpanding braces
Expand braces in glob patterns to match multiple patterns. This example matches 'foo.js' and 'foo1.js' with a single pattern.
const micromatch = require('micromatch');
const result = micromatch(['foo.js', 'foo1.js'], 'foo{,1}.js');
console.log(result); // ['foo.js', 'foo1.js']Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works with glob patterns. It is the matcher used internally by npm (at least at the time of writing), but it is slower and less feature-rich compared to micromatch.
Globby is a wrapper for fast-glob and supports multiple patterns. It provides a higher-level API for matching against file paths and is built on top of micromatch, offering additional features like file system operations.
Fast-glob is a fast implementation of glob functionality with a focus on performance. It provides a similar API to micromatch but includes additional features like returning file stats along with matched paths.
Node-glob is an older glob implementation for Node.js. It is callback-based and not as performant or modern as micromatch, but it has been widely used in the Node.js ecosystem.
Readme
Glob matching for javascript/node.js. Like minimatch, but 10-40x faster.
Supports
All the mainstream glob features you're used to using in your gulp and Grunt tasks:
foo/bar-{1..5}.md, one/{two,three}/four.md**/*, a/b/*.jsDoes not support
npm i micromatch --save
var micromatch = require('micromatch');
mm(['a.js', 'b.md', 'c.txt'], '*.{js,txt}');
//=> ['a.js', 'c.txt']
Also supports negation patterns:
mm(['a.js', 'b.md', 'c.txt'], '!*.{js,txt}');
//=> ['b.md']
mm(['a.md', 'b.js', 'c.txt', 'd.json'], ['*.*', '!*.{js,txt}']);
//=> ['a.md', 'd.json']
Run the benchmarks
node benchmark/
Install dev dependencies
npm i -d && mocha
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb on December 23, 2014.
FAQs
Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.
The npm package micromatch receives a total of 47,822,632 weekly downloads. As such, micromatch popularity was classified as popular.
We found that micromatch demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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