Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

To get started, let's create a new folder called fetching-meta-data, containing a file called meta.js:

$ mkdir fetching-meta-data $ cd fetching-meta-data $ touch meta.js 

Now let's use npm to create package.json file:

$ npm init -y 

We're going to display tabulated and styled metadata in the terminal; instead of manually writing ANSI codes and tabulating code, we'll simply be using the third-party tableaux module.

We can install it like so:

$ npm install --save tableaux 

Finally, we'll create a folder structure that we can check our program against:

$ mkdir -p my-folder/my-subdir/my-subsubdir $ cd my-folder $ touch my-file my-private-file $ chmod 000 my-private-file $ echo "my edit" > my-file $ ln -s my-file my-symlink $ touch ...