Get the language associated with a file extension or the extensions associated with a language using the data from GitHub's Linguist YAML file
The API changed in v0.4.0. Please see the documentation below for details on the new API. Don't hesitate to create an issue if you have any questions.
Install with npm
$ npm i lang-map --savevar map = require('lang-map');Returns the language that is associated with the given file extension (with or without .):
var map = require('lang-map');
map.languages('coffee');
//=> [ 'coffeescript' ]
map.languages('handlebars');
//=> [ 'handlebars' ]
map.languages('hbs');
//=> [ 'handlebars' ]
map.languages('javascript');
//=> [ 'javascript' ]
map.languages('js');
//=> [ 'javascript' ]
map.languages('md');
//=> [ 'markdown' ]
map.languages('mkdown');
//=> [ 'markdown' ]Why is an array of languages returned?
In some (rare) cases an extension maps to multiple languages.
map.languages('h');
//=> [ 'c', 'c++', 'objective-c' ]Returns the list of file extensions associated with the given language:
var map = require('lang-map');
map.extensions('coffee');
//=> [ 'coffee', '_coffee', 'cjsx', 'cson', 'iced' ]
map.extensions('hbs');
//=> [ 'handlebars', 'hbs' ]
map.extensions('markdown');
//=> [ 'md', 'markdown', 'mkd', 'mkdn', 'mkdown', 'ron' ]
map.extensions('md');
//=> [ 'md', 'markdown', 'mkd', 'mkdn', 'mkdown', 'ron' ]
map.extensions('c');
//=> [ 'c', 'cats', 'h', 'idc', 'w' ]var map = require('lang-map');
var extensions = map().extensions;var map = require('lang-map');
var languages = map().languages;language-map: GitHub's Linguist YAML language map provided as JSON
Update the .json language files in lib/.
$ npm run updateInstall dev dependencies:
$ npm i -d && npm testPull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-cli on August 18, 2015.
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