Replacement for minimatch

[sgrishchenko]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

It is great that now in Node 22 there is fs.glob. But it seems that also replacement for minimatch is required. Otherwise, I don't know how to use exclude function from fs.glob options, because it is a frequent scenario when I need to use some glob pattern to exclude files.

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

I propose to export some helper that matches path string and glob pattern (maybe from path module).

What alternatives have you considered?

The only alternative I see for now is use minimatch package (or package that similar to it).

[MoLow]

can you give an example of your use case?
do you mean something along the lines of path.matchesPattern(pattern:string, path:string) => boolean?

[sgrishchenko]

Yes, something like this. E.g. in Vitest docs you can see an example of exclude property in config. If I want to implement a similar approach in my CLI utility that is written in Node, I need to filter out file names that provides fs.glob for me. Unfortunately, I don't see any way how I can do this using current Node API.

Also, I am developing Karakum project. It also CLI util, I use it to convert Typescript definitions to Kotlin/JS definitions. And I also have a similar problem: I need to collect some files using globs, but then I need to ignore some of them (also using glob). Now I use glob and minimatch libraries for it. I considered using native Node API, but I realized that I don't have a replacement for minimatch.

BTW, thanks for asking.

[MoLow]

@redyetidev are you interested in picking this up and adding a path.isMatch/path.matchesPattern helper?

[avivkeller]

Sure!