Effect-TS
[Feature request] Add `force` option to `RemoveOptions` in `FileSystem` API
What is the problem this feature would solve?
There's currently no equivalent of rm -rf available in the FileSystem API.
What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?
I'd suggest adding readonly force?: boolean to RemoveOptions and propagating it through to the underlying NFS.rm call.
https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/blob/9f2bc5a19e0b678a0a85e84daac290922b0fd57d/packages/platform/src/FileSystem.ts#L385-L387
https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/blob/9f2bc5a19e0b678a0a85e84daac290922b0fd57d/packages/platform-node/src/internal/fileSystem.ts#L138-L149
https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fsrmpath-options-callback
What alternatives have you considered?
You can avoid an ENOENT: no such file or directory error in a call like fileSystem.remove(directoryPath, { recursive: true }) on a non-existent directoryPath by doing a fileSystem.exists(directoryPath) check first, but this splits things into two file system calls and introduces an unnecessary race condition, so it would be better if we could directly write fileSystem.remove(directoryPath, { force: true, recursive: true }).
