Hack-linguist

Simple wrapper on top of atom-linguist

Installation

npm i hack-linguist

var linguist = require("hack-linguist");

API

walkIdentify: walks through a directory and identifies each file
identify: Identifies the programming language for a single file
identifySync: Identifies the programming language for a file synchronously

Report

Report is the returned object when using walkIdentifySync It holds some useful data

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Examples

...
linguist.identify('YOUR_FILE', function(err, language) {
	// error -> the possible error that occurred
	// language -> the identified language
});

var language = linguist.identify('YOUR_FILE');

...
var report = walkIdentifySync('YOUR_DIRECTORY');

walkIdentifySync with ignore list

var ignoreList = [
	'*.js',
	'node_modules',
	'bower_components',
	'.gitignore',
];

var report = walkIdentifySync('YOUR_DIRECTORY', ignoreList);

Todo

Create an asynchronous version of walkIdentifySync