Listing a large number of files in package.js

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Hey everybody, I am building a custom local package for a theme that I have and there are a few hundred files that I need to include in the package.js file. Is there a wildcard that I can use, or something to specify all files in this directory so that I don’t have to individually include all those?

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I do something like this:

Write a helper script that will just give you all of the file paths you need to include, then copy-paste that into package.js.

Example script:

dir = require 'node-dir'
fs = require 'fs'
path = require 'path'

dir.files __dirname + '/public/images', (err, files) ->
  paths = JSON.stringify(files.map (f) -> path.relative __dirname, f)
  fs.writeFile 'assets.json', paths

It reads everything from the public/images directory in the script’s folder and then dumps all those paths into an assets.json file as a json array – which you can handily copy and paste into package.js.
(npm install node-dir if you decide to use this particular script; but best to just write your own, using the idea.)

You’re a programmer, so you can program things to do things for you – use it :smile:

ps. My use case here was also making a theme work within Meteor. And of course it would be lovely if there was a wildcard path syntax or similar, but with the solution above it becomes a really small nice-to-have.

EDIT: Yeah, shock’s solution one post down is even simpler. I’m not very good with awk so I need to resort to writing more than just a couple of shell commands.

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I usually go simple unix way

Roberts-MacBook-Pro:shockitv-twitch shock$ find lib -type f | awk '{print "\"" $1 "\"\,"}'
"lib/server/clear_twitch.js",
"lib/server/core.js",
"lib/server/cron.js",
"lib/server/startup.js",
"lib/server/twitch_fetch.js",
Roberts-MacBook-Pro:shockitv-twitch shock$
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Thanks guys. Good suggestions. I was using tree with some switches, but then I would still need to get it into JSON format. Sometimes it doesn’t even occur to you to write a program to help you write a program, lol. Awesome, appreciate the help!

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I have tried so many different ways to integrate this theme, but it won’t render correctly. Is there any way you could help me to get it working? I would be happy to compensate you via paypal for your time and effort. I really want to get this theme working.

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Did you try this one? https://github.com/philcockfield/meteor-package-paths

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well, you never mentioned what kind of theme it is, it if is some bunch of css or what exactly
so hard to comment on that.

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Take a look at this recursive approach, it works: StackOverflow question.