glob/globSync from node:fs…

[coderextreme]

Can this package use glob and globSync from node:fs instead of fast-glob? I’m not entirely sure it does, but I’m working on reducing dependencies…

E.g.:

import { globSync } from 'node:fs';
import { glob } from 'node:fs/promises';

I am using the latest node.js, or a recent version.

Thanks!

John

[prantlf]

Yes, it's a good idea. Most of the glob features was added to Node.js 22. I'll do it in the next major version.

[prantlf]

On a second look, it won't be possible. The built-in glob doesn't support multiple patterns with the possibility of excluding patterns. For example:

jsonlint 'test/**/*.json' '!**/fails'

This will skip all files in subdirectories called fails. While it'd be possible to implement negative patterns by adding a pattern-matching package and pruning the globbed files, it'd just replace one dependency with the other and increase the code size.

Another missing function is detection of a pattern in a file name.

I wouldn't mind replacing fast-glob with another globbing library, if there's a good reason for it. But the built-in glob lacks functionality.

[prantlf]

Oh, my mistake. The option exclude of the built-in glob can be also an array of patterns to ignore. So, the replacement could work. The missing features would be some is-glob function to recognise a pattern and optionally recognising a negative pattern to avoid changing the command line.

[prantlf]

Released in 17.0.0.