👉 symbol-link-manager

symbol-link-manager can manage your projects symbolic links to ease your developer life a little.

• The problem
• The solution
• Installation
• Usage
• Setup
• Contributors
• License

The problem

Let me explain why I needed this.

I started develop a site for a client, a WordPress site. And I found it tiresome to open up all levels of folders and jump between the themes and plugins that I used.

Even though I used roots/bedrock the folders structure is still a bit too deep.

So I wanted to place them themes and plugins closer to the project root, and decided to symlink them into the correct folders.

But I needed a simple solution to manage these links.

Enter symbol-link-manager.

The solution

symbol-link-manager uses a central config and will automatically create your symlinks upon executing the cli command.

In my use case it's best used alongside a build-script or after install.

Installation

Install the cli useing npm or yarn.

$ npm i --save-dev symbol-link-manager
$ yarn add --dev symbol-link-manager

Usage

After creating the config file, .symlinkrc, you can run the symbol-link-manager cli-command, either directly from the terminal, or as a script inside package.json.

From terminal:

# From terminal
$ ./node_modules/.bin/symbol-link-manager

As script:

{
  "scripts": {
    "setup-links": "symbol-link-manager"
  }
}

# Then from the terminal
$ npm run setup-links
$ yarn run setup-links

Tip: Setup symbol-link-manager as a script that runs for example after install:

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "symbol-link-manager"
  }
}

Setup

symbol-link-manager requires a root config file, named .symlinkrc to be set up in the root of your project, alongside your package.json.

Inside it you defined the targets and the location of the links as key-values formatted as JSON. The paths must be either absolute or relative to the root of your project.

Example:

{
  "./themes/{dir}": "./wp/wp-content/themes/{dir}",
  "./plugins/{dir}": "./wp/wp-content/plugins/{dir}"
}

This setup will create links for all directories inside ./themes into ./wp/wp-content/themes, the same for ./plugins.

Note that symbol-link-manager wont overwrite any existing files or links. Instead the CLI command will present a simple overview of which link where created and which were ignored.

Options

There aren't much options to use. But you can tell symbol-link-manager to link only folders, files or all using simple filter.

You use them inside the path strings inside .symlinkrc:

{
  "./path1/{dir}": "./link1/{dir}", // Links only directories
  "./path2/{file}": "./link2/{file}", // Links only files
  "./path3/{all}": "./link3/{all}" // Links both directories and files
}

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Adam Bergman 💻 📖 🤔

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

MIT