removed jest because it was screwing things up

package.json

@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@
     "url": "git://github.com/username/repository.git"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "jest",
+    "test": "jest --verbose",
     "clean": "gulp clean",
     "build": "gulp",
+    "ts-compile": "tsc --outDir build/util",
     "start": "npm run build && electron ./build",
     "start-fast": "gulp runFast && electron ./build",
     "dev": "npm run build && electron ./build --debug",
@@ -42,18 +43,15 @@
     "bootstrap": "^4.5.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/jquery": "^3.5.1",
     "devtron": "^1.4.0",
     "electron": "^7.2.4",
     "electron-settings": "^3.0.7",
     "electron-shortcut-normalizer": "^1.0.0",
     "electron-packager": "^15.1.0",
-    "@types/jquery": "^3.5.1",
     "gulp": "^4.0.2",
     "gulp-typescript": "^6.0.0-alpha.1",
     "gulp-exec": "^5.0.0",
-    "del": "^6.0.0",
+    "del": "^6.0.0"
-    "jest": "^26.6.1",
-    "ts-jest": "^26.4.2",
-    "@types/jest": "^26.0.15"
   }
 }

src/ts_source/fileutils.ts

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ let fileExtensionToImage: object;
 
 export class Configurator {
 
-    fileutils: FileUtils = new FileUtils();
-
     getFileExtensionToImageMap(): Object {
         if (!fileExtensionToImage) {
             fileExtensionToImage = this.loadAppConfig("file-extensions.json");
@@ -16,14 +14,14 @@ export class Configurator {
     };
 
     loadAppConfig(fileName: string): object {
-        let filePath = this.fileutils.getPathToConfig(fileName);
+        let filePath = FileUtils.getPathToConfig(fileName);
         let fileBuffer = fs.readFileSync(filePath);
         let content = fileBuffer.toString('utf8')
         return JSON.parse(content)
     }
 
     loadUserConfig(fileName: string): object {
-        let userConfigPath = this.fileutils.getPathToUserDir(fileName);
+        let userConfigPath = FileUtils.getPathToUserDir(fileName);
         if (!fs.existsSync(userConfigPath)) {
             return {};
         } else {
@@ -33,7 +31,7 @@ export class Configurator {
     }
 
     saveUserConfig(fileName: string, obj: any) {
-        let userConfigPath = this.fileutils.getPathToUserDir(fileName);
+        let userConfigPath = FileUtils.getPathToUserDir(fileName);
         let content = JSON.stringify(obj);
         fs.writeFile(userConfigPath, content, (err) => {
             if (err) {
@@ -45,81 +43,104 @@ export class Configurator {
 
 }
 
-export class FileUtils {
+export module FileUtils {
-    getPathToView(templateName: string): string {
+    export function getPathToView(templateName: string): string {
         return path.join(this.getPathToAssets(), "views", templateName + ".mustache")
     }
 
-    getPathToImage(imageName: string): string {
+    export function getPathToImage(imageName: string): string {
         return path.join(this.getPathToAssets(), "images", imageName)
     }
 
-    getPathToDocument(documentName: string): string {
+    export function getPathToDocument(documentName: string): string {
         return path.join(this.getPathToAssets(), "documents", documentName)
     }
 
-    getPathToConfig(documentName: string): string {
+    export function getPathToConfig(documentName: string): string {
         return path.join(this.getPathToAssets(), "conf", documentName)
     }
 
-    getPathToAssets(): string {
+    export function getPathToAssets(): string {
         return path.join(__dirname, "..", "assets");
     }
 
-    getFileExtension(fileName: string): string {
+    export function getFileExtension(fileName: string): string {
         return path.extname(fileName);
     }
 
-    getPathToUserDir(fileName: string): string {
+    export function getPathToUserDir(fileName: string): string {
         let dirPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "user");
         let filePath = path.join(dirPath, fileName);
         this.touchDir(dirPath);
         return filePath;
     }
 
-    touchDir(dirPath: string) {
+    export function touchDir(dirPath: string) {
         if (!fs.existsSync(dirPath)) {
             fs.mkdirSync(dirPath);
         }
     }
 }
 
+
 export class DocumentDirectory {
-    constructor(filepath: string) {
+    /**
-        if (fs.existsSync(filepath)) {
+     * you *must* provide an absolute file path here
-            let stats = fs.lstatSync(filepath);
+     */
-            if (stats.isDirectory()) {
+    constructor(filePath: string) {
-                let contents = fs.readdirSync(filepath);
+        this.root = new DirectoryNode(filePath);
-                for (let i = 0, l = contents.length; i < l; i++) {
-                    console.log(contents[i]);
-                }
-            } else {
-                throw Error("attempted to scan non-directory");
-            }
-        } else {
-            throw Error("attempted to load document directory for non-existing directory");
-        }
     }
 
-    children: FileNode[];
+    root: DirectoryNode;
 
 }
 
 export class FileNode {
+    filePath: string;
+
+    constructor(filePath: string) {
+        this.filePath = filePath;
+    }
+
+    open() {
 
+    }
 }
 
 export class DirectoryNode extends FileNode {
-    constructor() {
+    children: FileNode[] = [];
-        super();
-    }
 
-    children: FileNode[];
+    constructor(filePath: string) {
+        super(filePath);
+        if (fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
+            let stats = fs.lstatSync(filePath);
+            if (stats.isDirectory()) {
+                let contents = fs.readdirSync(filePath);
+                for (let i = 0, l = contents.length; i < l; i++) {
+                    let childPath = path.join(filePath, contents[i]);
+                    let childStats = fs.lstatSync(childPath);
+                    if (childStats.isDirectory()) {
+                        this.children.push(new DirectoryNode(childPath));
+                    } else {
+                        this.children.push(new DocumentNode(childPath));
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                throw Error(`attempted to scan non-directory: ${filePath}`);
+            }
+        } else {
+            throw Error(`attempted to load document directory for non-existing directory: ${filePath}`);
+        }
+    }
 
 }
 
 export class DocumentNode extends FileNode {
 
+    constructor(filePath: string) {
+        super(filePath);
+    }
+
 }
 
 

src/ts_source/templates.ts

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ interface TemplateCallbackType {
 const templateCache = {};
 
 export function cacheTemplates() {
-    let fu = new FileUtils();
+    let basePath = path.join(FileUtils.getPathToAssets(), "views");
-    let basePath = path.join(fu.getPathToAssets(), "views");
     fs.readdirSync(basePath)
         .forEach((file) => {
             templateCache[file] = fs.readFileSync(path.join(basePath.toString(), file)).toString();

src/ts_source/viewFactory.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ import {WebUtils} from "./webutils"
 const shell = require('electron').shell;
 
 const config = new Configurator();
-const fu = new FileUtils();
-
 
 export class CardModel {
     imagePath: string;
@@ -108,13 +106,13 @@ function fileNameToPrettyString(fileName: string): string {
 }
 
 function getImagePathFromDocumentName(name: string): string {
-    let ext = fu.getFileExtension(name);
+    let ext = FileUtils.getFileExtension(name);
     let thumbnail = config.getFileExtensionToImageMap()[ext];
-    return fu.getPathToImage(thumbnail);
+    return FileUtils.getPathToImage(thumbnail);
 }
 
 function launchDocument(filename: string) {
-    let fullPath = fu.getPathToDocument(filename);
+    let fullPath = FileUtils.getPathToDocument(filename);
     console.log(`Attempting to open file: ${fullPath}`);
     shell.openItem(fullPath);
 }

tests/fileutils-test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import {DocumentDirectory} from "../src/ts_source/fileutils";
+
+const path = require('path');
+
+describe('fileutils', ()=>{
+    it('documentDirectoryConstructor', testDocumentDirectoryConstructor);
+});
+
+function testDocumentDirectoryConstructor(){
+    let directoryPath = path.join(__dirname, "../src/assets/documents");
+    let documents = new DocumentDirectory(directoryPath);
+    let firstChild = documents.root.children[0];
+}

tsconfig.json

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 {
-  "files": ["src/ts_source/*.ts"],
+  "include": ["src/ts_source/*.ts"],
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "module": "commonjs",
     "target": "es6",
+    "module": "commonjs",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
     "sourceMap": true
   },
   "exclude": [