Installation

CLI

npx atmx add helper empty

Manually

Copy and paste the following method into @/utils/helpers/empty.ts:

import { join } from "node:path";
import { readdir } from "node:fs/promises";

import { rimraf } from "@/helpers/rimraf.ts";
import { mkdirs } from "@/helpers/mkdirs.ts";

/**
* Deletes all the files in a given directory asynchronously while preserving the original directory.
* If the directory does not exist, it will be created.
*
* @param dir - The directory to empty.
* @returns A boolean denoting whether a directory had to be created.
*/
export async function empty(dir: string) {
let items: string[];

try {
items = await readdir(dir);
} catch {
return mkdirs(dir);
}

return Promise.all(items.map((item) => rimraf(join(dir, item))));
}