Deepkit Filesystem

Local Filesystem

The local filesystem adapter is one of the most common filesystems and provides access to the filesystem on which the application is running.

It is part of @deepkit/filesystem and uses the fs/promises API of Node under the hood, so not additional installation is required.

Usage

import { FilesystemLocalAdapter, Filesystem } from '@deepkit/filesystem';

const adapter = new FilesystemLocalAdapter({ root: '/path/to/files' });
const filesystem = new Filesystem(adapter);

Here the root option is the root directory of the filesystem. All paths are relative to this root.

// reads the file /path/to/files/hello.txt
const content: string = await filesystem.readAsText('/hello.txt');

Permissions

You can configure what permissions the filesystem should use when creating files and directories. Each category (file, directory) can be configured separately into two visibilities: public and private.

const adapter = new FilesystemLocalAdapter({
    root: '/path/to/files',
    permissions: {
        file: {
            public: 0o644,
            private: 0o600,
        },
        directory: {
            public: 0o755,
            private: 0o700,
        }
    }
});


const filesystem = new Filesystem(adapter);

filesystem.write('/hello-public.txt', 'hello world', 'public');
filesystem.write('/hello-private.txt', 'hello world', 'private');

Here the file /hello-public.txt will be created with the permissions 0o644 and /hello-private.txt with 0o600.