coderaiser / superstat

Smooth out differences between stat and lstat

Superstat

Smooth out differences between stat and lstat.

Why?

• Symbolic link stat returned by lstat.isDirectory() is always false.
• To know if a link is a directory we should call stat.isDirectory().
• stat.isSymbolicLink() is always false.

Install

npm i superstat

Example

Create symlink to root directory:

ln -s / hello

const stat = await superstat('./hello');

stat.isDirectory()
// returns
true

stat.isSymbolicLink()
// returns
true

License

MIT