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vfile is a virtual file format part of the unified collective.
Intro
vfile is a virtual file format used by unified, a text processing umbrella (it powers retext for natural language, remark for markdown, and rehype for HTML). Each processors that parse, transform, and compile text, and need a virtual representation of files and a place to store messages about them. Plus, they work in the browser. vfile provides these requirements at a small size.
- Visit
unifiedjs.com
and see its learn section for an overview - Read unified’s readme for a technical intro
- Follow us on Medium and Twitter to see what we’re up to
- Check out Contribute below to find out how to help out
vfile is different from the excellent
vinyl
in that it has a smaller API, a smaller size, and focuses on messages.
vfile can be used anywhere where files need a lightweight representation. For example, it’s used in:
documentation
— The documentation system for modern JavaScriptawoo
— Declarative small site generatorgeojsonhint
— Complete, fast, standards-based validation for geojson
Sponsors
Gatsby 🥇 |
Vercel 🥇 |
Netlify |
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Holloway |
ThemeIsle 🥉 |
BoostIO 🥉 |
Expo 🥉 |
You? |
Install
npm:
npm install vfile
Contents
Use
var vfile = require('vfile')
var file = vfile({path: '~/example.txt', contents: 'Alpha *braavo* charlie.'})
.path // => '~/example.txt'
file.dirname // => '~'
file
.extname = '.md'
file
.basename // => 'example.md'
file
.basename = 'index.text'
file
.history // => ['~/example.txt', '~/example.md', '~/index.text']
file
.message('`braavo` is misspelt; did you mean `bravo`?', {
fileline: 1,
column: 8
})
console.log(file.messages)
Yields:
~/index.text:1:8: `braavo` is misspelt; did you mean `bravo`?]
[ { [ message: '`braavo` is misspelt; did you mean `bravo`?',
name: '~/index.text:1:8',
file: '~/index.text',
reason: '`braavo` is misspelt; did you mean `bravo`?',
line: 1,
column: 8,
location: { start: [Object], end: [Object] },
ruleId: null,
source: null,
fatal: false } ]
API
VFile([options])
Create a new virtual file. If options
is
string
or Buffer
, treats it as
{contents: options}
. If options
is a
VFile
, returns it. All other options are set on the newly
created vfile
.
Path related properties are set in the following order (least
specific to most specific): history
, path
,
basename
, stem
, extname
,
dirname
.
It’s not possible to set either dirname
or
extname
without setting either history
,
path
, basename
, or stem
as
well.
Example
vfile()
vfile('console.log("alpha");')
vfile(Buffer.from('exit 1'))
vfile({path: path.join(__dirname, 'readme.md')})
vfile({stem: 'readme', extname: '.md', dirname: __dirname})
vfile({other: 'properties', are: 'copied', ov: {e: 'r'}})
vfile.contents
Buffer
, string
, null
— Raw
value.
vfile.cwd
string
— Base of path
. Defaults to
process.cwd()
.
vfile.path
string?
— Path of vfile
. Cannot be
nullified.
vfile.basename
string?
— Current name (including extension) of
vfile
. Cannot contain path separators. Cannot be nullified
either (use file.path = file.dirname
instead).
vfile.stem
string?
— Name (without extension) of
vfile
. Cannot be nullified, and cannot contain path
separators.
vfile.extname
string?
— Extension (with dot) of vfile
.
Cannot be set if there’s no path
yet and cannot contain
path separators.
vfile.dirname
string?
— Path to parent directory of
vfile
. Cannot be set if there’s no path
yet.
vfile.history
Array.<string>
— List of file-paths the file moved
between.
vfile.messages
Array.<VMessage>
— List of messages associated with the file.
vfile.data
Object
— Place to store custom information. It’s OK to
store custom data directly on the vfile
, moving it to
data
gives a little more privacy.
VFile#toString([encoding])
Convert contents of vfile
to string. If
contents
is a buffer, encoding
is used to
stringify buffers (default: 'utf8'
).
VFile#message(reason[, position][, origin])
Associates a message with the file, where fatal
is set
to false
. Constructs a new VMessage
and adds it to vfile.messages
.
Returns
VFile#info(reason[, position][, origin])
Associates an informational message with the file, where
fatal
is set to null
. Calls #message()
internally.
Returns
VFile#fail(reason[, position][, origin])
Associates a fatal message with the file, then immediately throws it.
Note: fatal errors mean a file is no longer processable. Calls #message()
internally.
Throws
Utilities
The following list of projects includes tools for working with virtual files. See unist for projects working with nodes.
convert-vinyl-to-vfile
— transform from Vinyl to vfileto-vfile
— create a vfile from a filepathvfile-find-down
— find files by searching the file system downwardsvfile-find-up
— find files by searching the file system upwardsvfile-glob
— find files by glob patternsvfile-is
— check if a vfile passes a testvfile-location
— convert between positional and offset locationsvfile-matter
— parse the YAML front mattervfile-message
— create a vfile messagevfile-messages-to-vscode-diagnostics
— transform vfile messages to VS Code diagnosticsvfile-mkdirp
— make sure the directory of a vfile exists on the file systemvfile-rename
— rename the path parts of a vfilevfile-sort
— sort messages by line/columnvfile-statistics
— count messages per category: failures, warnings, etcvfile-to-eslint
— convert to ESLint formatter compatible output
Reporters
The following list of projects show linting results for given virtual
files. Reporters must accept Array.<VFile>
as their first argument, and return string
. Reporters
may accept other values too, in which case it’s suggested to
stick to vfile-reporter
s interface.
vfile-reporter
— create a reportvfile-reporter-json
— create a JSON reportvfile-reporter-folder-json
— create a JSON representation of vfilesvfile-reporter-pretty
— create a pretty reportvfile-reporter-junit
— create a jUnit reportvfile-reporter-position
— create a report with content excerpts
Contribute
See contributing.md
in vfile/.github
for ways to get started. See support.md
for ways to get help. Ideas for new utilities and tools can be posted in
vfile/ideas
.
This project has a code of conduct. By interacting with this repository, organization, or community you agree to abide by its terms.
Acknowledgments
The initial release of this project was authored by @wooorm.
Thanks to @contra, @phated, and others for their work on Vinyl, which was a huge inspiration.
Thanks to @brendo, @shinnn, @KyleAMathews, @sindresorhus, and @denysdovhan for contributing commits since!