Node Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

Let's open meta.js, and begin by loading the modules we'll be using:

const fs = require('fs') const path = require('path') const tableaux = require('tableaux') 

Next we'll initialize tableaux with some table headers, which in turn will supply a write function which we'll be using shortly:

const write = tableaux(   {name: 'Name', size: 20},   {name: 'Created', size: 30},   {name: 'DeviceId', size: 10},   {name: 'Mode', size: 8},   {name: 'Lnks', size: 4},   {name: 'Size', size:  6} ) 

Now let's sketch out a print function:

function print(dir) {   fs.readdirSync(dir)     .map((file) => ({file, dir}))     .map(toMeta)     .forEach(output)   write.newline() } 

The print function won't work yet, not until we define the toMeta and output functions. ...