"Globs" is the common name for a specific type of pattern used to match files and folders. It's the patterns you type when you do stuff like ls *.js in your shell or put src/* in a .gitignore file. When used to match filenames, it's sometimes called a "wildcard".
Install
npm install tiny-glob
Core Features
- ? extremely fast: ~350% faster than node-glob and ~230% faster than fast-glob
- ? powerful: supports advanced globbing patterns (
ExtGlob) - ? tiny: only ~45 LOC with 2 small dependencies
- ? friendly: simple and easy to use api
- ? cross-platform: supports both unix and windows
Usage
const glob = require('tiny-glob');
(async function(){
let files = await glob('src/*/*.{js,md}');
// => [ ... ] array of matching files
})();
API
glob(str, options)
Type: function
Returns: Array
Return array of matching files and folders
This function is async and returns a promise.
str
Type: String
The glob pattern to match against.
OBS: Please only use forward-slashes in glob expressions. Even on windows
options.cwd
Type: String
Default: '.'
Change default working directory.
options.dot
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Allow patterns to match filenames or directories that begin with a period (.).
options.absolute
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Return matches as absolute paths.
options.filesOnly
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Skip directories and return matched files only.
options.flush
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Flush the internal cache object.
Windows
Though Windows may use /, \, or \\ as path separators, you can only use forward-slashes (/) when specifying glob expressions. Any back-slashes (\) will be interpreted as escape characters instead of path separators.
This is common across many glob-based modules; see node-glob for corroboration.
Benchmarks
glob x 13,405 ops/sec ±1.80% (85 runs sampled)
fast-glob x 25,745 ops/sec ±2.76% (59 runs sampled)
tiny-glob x 102,658 ops/sec ±0.79% (91 runs sampled)
Fastest is tiny-glob
┌───────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Name │ Mean time │ Ops/sec │ Diff │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ glob │ 0.00007459990597268128 │ 13,404.843 │ N/A │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ fast-glob │ 0.000038842529587611705 │ 25,744.976 │ 92.06% faster │
├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────┤
│ tiny-glob │ 0.00000974110141018254 │ 102,657.796 │ 298.75% faster │
└───────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────┴────────────────┘
Advanced Globbing
Learn more about advanced globbing
License
MIT © Terkel Gjervig