API design suggestion: path arrays
callumlocke opened this issue · 0 comments
callumlocke commented
Hi Rich
I really like the way sander automatically path-resolves multiple string arguments.
But this comes at a cost:
- you have to invent a new API for all methods that involve two paths (the
.to()
chain) - you can't support shortcuts like
utf8
for{encoding: 'utf8'}
IMO these are big caveats. They stop sander from feeling like a drop-in replacement for fs. And I still trip up on them a lot and find myself scanning the readme again, even though I've been using sander for a long time.
Why not just provide this functionality via arrays? ie...
sander.writeFile([someDir, 'foo.txt'], content);
That is, any path arguments would have to be provided as either a single string or an array of strings. But always a single argument. (Obviously this would entail a major version bump.)