# empty-dir [![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![Downloads][downloads-image]][npm-url] [![Travis Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url] [![AppVeyor Build Status][appveyor-image]][appveyor-url] [![Coveralls Status][coveralls-image]][coveralls-url] [![Gitter chat][gitter-image]][gitter-url] Check if a directory is empty. ## Usage ```js var emptyDir = require('empty-dir'); // Using an error-back emptyDir('./', function(err, result) { if (err) { console.error(err); } else { console.log('Directory is empty:', result); } }); // Using a Promise emptyDir('./').then(function(result) { console.log('Directory is empty:', result); }); var result = emptyDir.sync('./test/empty'); console.log('Directory is empty:', result); ``` ## API ### `emptyDir(paths, [filterFunction], [callback])` Takes a path string or array of path strings and returns a Promise. Checks if the given paths are empty and resolves with a boolean indicating if the paths are empty directories. Optionally takes a filter function to filter out files that cause false positives. Also, can take a node-style callback function instead of returning a Promise. ### `emptyDir.sync(paths, [filterFunction])` Same as the above API but operates and returns synchronously. An error will be thrown. #### Filter function Both async and sync take a filter function as the second argument, to ignore files like `.DS_Store` on mac or `Thumbs.db` on windows from causing false-negatives. ```js var emptyDir = require('empty-dir'); function filter(filepath) { return !/(Thumbs\.db|\.DS_Store)$/i.test(filepath); } emptyDir('./', filter, function(err, isEmpty) { if (err) { console.error(err); } else { console.log('Directory is empty:', isEmpty); } }); var isEmpty = emptyDir.sync('./test/empty', filter); console.log('Directory is empty:', isEmpty); ``` #### Promises Global promises are required for this module. If you are using a platform that doesn't have promise support, you'll need to polyfill Promise on the global. ```js global.Promise = require('insert-your-promise-polyfill-here'); var emptyDir = require('empty-dir'); emptyDir('./').then(function(result) { console.log('Directory is empty:', result); }); ``` ## License MIT [downloads-image]: http://img.shields.io/npm/dm/empty-dir.svg [npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/empty-dir [npm-image]: http://img.shields.io/npm/v/empty-dir.svg [travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/gulpjs/empty-dir [travis-image]: http://img.shields.io/travis/gulpjs/empty-dir.svg?label=travis-ci [appveyor-url]: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gulpjs/empty-dir [appveyor-image]: https://img.shields.io/appveyor/ci/gulpjs/empty-dir.svg?label=appveyor [coveralls-url]: https://coveralls.io/r/gulpjs/empty-dir [coveralls-image]: http://img.shields.io/coveralls/gulpjs/empty-dir/master.svg [gitter-url]: https://gitter.im/gulpjs/gulp [gitter-image]: https://badges.gitter.im/gulpjs/gulp.svg