Virtual File System for Node.js
Note: This code is not maintained anymore. Use memfs
and
unionfs
instead.
Mount virtual files to your fs
filesystem.
var nodefs = ; var layer = "test/index.js": "console.log('Hello World!')" "text.txt": "Hello again!" // ...; nodefs;; // Hello World! var fs = ;console; // Hello again!
Why is it useful? It is used in nodefs-drive
package to pack your Node.js projects into a single .js
file.
When you run the file, nodefs
creates the virtual file system and you app runs as if it was running from your hard drive.
TODOs
- Crate a light version with only
fs.readFileSync
,fs.statSync
, andfs.realpathSync
. - Implement the rest of the mehtods.
- Crate a version with read-only file system.
- Split project in multiple packages, lets say: (1) in-memory file system; (2) read-only file system; (3) etc..,
and (4) a union file system that can combine then all together with
fs
module. - http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Filesystem
Interesting:
Since "fs" must be frozen to be secure, there is no need for the "file" module to assemble aparatus for late binding to "fs" methods.