glob-monster is a file globber that understands regular expressions.

Full documentation, synced from the source README:

Moved to https://github.com/DavidWells/packages/tree/master/packages/util-globs

File globber that understands globs or regex.

See tests for more details.

Install

npm install glob-monster

Usage

const { find, getFilePaths } = require('glob-monster')

const opts = {}
const files = await find(['**.md'], opts)
console.log(files)
/* [
  'README.md',
  'node_modules/dequal/readme.md',
] */

const opts = {}
const filesViaRegex = await find([/\.md$/], {})
console.log(filesViaRegex)
/* files [
  'README.md',
  'node_modules/dequal/readme.md',
] */

const mdxAndTestFiles = await getFilePaths(ROOT_DIR, {
  patterns: [
    /(.*)\.mdx?$/,
    /\.test\.js$/,
  ],
  ignore: [
    /node_modules/,
  ],
  excludeGitIgnore: true,
  excludeHidden: true,
})

About

I wanted a easy way to use glob patterns or regular expressions to locate files. Thus, this package was born.

String globs match via micromatch and is-glob.

Basic syntax

• An asterisk (*) — matches everything except slashes (path separators), hidden files (names starting with .).
• A double star or globstar (**) — matches zero or more directories.
• Question mark (?) – matches any single character except slashes (path separators).
• Sequence ([seq]) — matches any character in sequence.

:book: A few additional words about the [basic matching behavior][picomatch_matching_behavior].

Some examples:

• src/**/*.js — matches all files in the src directory (any level of nesting) that have the .js extension.
• src/*.?? — matches all files in the src directory (only first level of nesting) that have a two-character extension.
• file-[01].js — matches files: file-0.js, file-1.js.

Advanced syntax

• [Escapes characters][micromatch_backslashes] (\\) — matching special characters ($^*+?()[]) as literals.
• [POSIX character classes][picomatch_posix_brackets] ([[:digit:]]).
• [Extended globs][micromatch_extglobs] (?(pattern-list)).
• [Bash style brace expansions][micromatch_braces] ({}).
• [Regexp character classes][micromatch_regex_character_classes] ([1-5]).
• [Regex groups][regular_expressions_brackets] ((a|b)).

:book: A few additional words about the [advanced matching behavior][micromatch_extended_globbing].

Some examples:

• src/**/*.{css,scss} — matches all files in the src directory (any level of nesting) that have the .css or .scss extension.
• file-[[:digit:]].js — matches files: file-0.js, file-1.js, …, file-9.js.
• file-{1..3}.js — matches files: file-1.js, file-2.js, file-3.js.
• file-(1|2) — matches files: file-1.js, file-2.js.