v3.0.0 Plans

[Nixinova]

My current ideas for a future v3.0 of LinguistJS.
If you have some ideas for good changes to this program, comment them below.

1. More streamlined raw content inputting

Perhaps make the input signature the following:

linguist([folders], { opts1 })
linguist({ filename1: content1, filename2: content2 }, { opts1} )

This would keep all the file data in the first argument and options in the second as at the moment when doing raw input you have to put the file names as the first argument and the file content in the second, which isn't very obvious (see #30).

Or: add a separate analyse.raw function?

2. Restructure internals to be raw-input based

The inner code should not treat folder traversal as the default.

linguist([folders], { opts1 })
//Should just be an alias for
const filesData = getAllFilesAndTheirContents(inputPath)
linguist(filesData, { opts1} )

I.e., treat the raw input as the default input method and when folder paths are used as input the file contents are grabbed and then from that point on it is treated like raw input.

3. Add count to language results

results.languages[lang].count

4. Move metadata into repository key?

Don't need to mix { bytes, lines } output with { type, color } metadata. Move results.languages['JavaScript'].type|color into repository['JavaScript'].type|color?