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A module for getting a path of the workspace directories and files.
Install using npm:
$ npm install x-paths
Directory Structure:
/home/yourhome/projectroot
├── app.js
├── foo
│ ├── foos.js
│ └── baz
│ └── users.js ---(1)
└── bar
├── bars.js
└── baz
└── index.js ---(2)
~/yourhome/projectroot$ node app.js
app.js:
const Paths = require('x-paths');
console.log(Paths.search('baz/users.js')); // /home/yourhome/projectroot/foo/baz/users.js
console.log(Paths.search('baz/index.js')); // /home/yourhome/projectroot/bar/baz/index.js
Note: You can see the source code and understand its methods.
MIT
FAQs
A module for getting a path of the workspace directories and files.
The npm package x-paths receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, x-paths popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that x-paths 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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