Zip application from the current folder

Question

i’ve node.js app that I Need to zip all the current folder with command from and get the zip on the root

For that I want to use the archiver npm package but I don’t understand the following:

1. where I put the current folder (since I want to zip all the application )
2. where should I put the name of the zip (the zip that should be created when execute the command)

My app have the following structure

MyApp
  Node_modules
  server.js
  app.js 
  package.json
  arc.js

In the arc.js I’ve put all the zip logic so I guess I need to provide zipPath (which in my case is ‘./‘) and zip name like myZip…

I tried with the following without success, any idea ?

var fs = require('fs');
var archiver = require('archiver');

// create a file to stream archive data to.
var output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/.');
var archive = archiver('zip', {
    zlib: { level: 9 } // Sets the compression level.
});

// listen for all archive data to be written
output.on('close', function() {
    console.log(archive.pointer() + ' total bytes');
    console.log('archiver has been finalized and the output file descriptor has closed.');
});

archive.on('warning', function(err) {
    if (err.code === 'ENOENT') {
        // log warning
    } else {
        // throw error
        throw err;
    }
});

// good practice to catch this error explicitly
archive.on('error', function(err) {
    throw err;
});

// pipe archive data to the file
archive.pipe(output);

I need that when I open the command line like

folder->myApp-> run zip arc and will create zipped file under the current path (which is the root in this case....)

Answer 1

You can use the glob method, but make sure to exclude *.zip files. Otherwise the zip file itself will be part of the archive. Here is an example:

// require modules
var fs = require('fs');
var archiver = require('archiver');

// create a file to stream archive data to.
var output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/example.zip');
var archive = archiver('zip', {
    zlib: { level: 9 } // Sets the compression level.
});

// listen for all archive data to be written
output.on('close', function () {
    console.log(archive.pointer() + ' total bytes');
    console.log('archiver has been finalized and the output file descriptor has closed.');
});

// good practice to catch warnings (ie stat failures and other non-blocking errors)
archive.on('warning', function (err) {
    if (err.code === 'ENOENT') {
        // log warning
    } else {
        // throw error
        throw err;
    }
});

// good practice to catch this error explicitly
archive.on('error', function (err) {
    throw err;
});

// pipe archive data to the file
archive.pipe(output);

archive.glob('**/*', { ignore: ['*.zip'] });

archive.finalize();