archiver.directory doesn't follow symbolic link

[soichih]

I am trying to add a directory full of symbolic links to my archive by doing something ..

archive.directory("/some/dir_with_symlinks", "dir");

I have a lot of symbolic links inside /some/dir, and I want to deference(?) all those symbolic links so that I can store the actual files inside my archive. Is there a way to do it with node-archiver?

[soichih]

I decided to just walk the directory and append() each files as regular files.

async function walk(dir) {
    let files = await fs.promises.readdir(dir);
    files = await Promise.all(files.map(async file => {
        const filePath = path.join(dir, file);
        const stats = await fs.promises.stat(filePath);
        if (stats.isDirectory()) return walk(filePath);
        else if(stats.isFile()) return filePath;
    }));
    return files.reduce((all, folderContents) => all.concat(folderContents), []);
}

let entries = await walk(source_path);
entries.forEach(entry=>{
    let subpath = entry.substring(source_path.length);
    console.log(entry, file.dest+subpath);
    archive.append(fs.createReadStream(entry), {name: file.dest+subpath});
}); 

It's too bad that node-archiver doesn't provide this capability, but I hope this helps someone.

[ahtokca]

Whould be nice to fix it for the archiverjs

archiver is used by amplify cli to zip node modules of lambdas. In case you have dependency to local folders then the local folders are shipped as simlinks. It breaks lambda deployments.