Function readConfigFile

src/node/cli.ts:723–748

(configPath?: string)

 * @param configPath Read the config from configPath instead of $CODE_SERVER_CONFIG or the default.
 */
export async function readConfigFile(configPath?: string): Promise<ConfigArgs> {
  if (!configPath) {
    configPath = process.env.CODE_SERVER_CONFIG
    if (!configPath) {
      configPath = path.join(paths.config, "config.yaml")
    }
  }

  await fs.mkdir(path.dirname(configPath), { recursive: true })

  try {
    const generatedPassword = await generatePassword()
    await fs.writeFile(configPath, defaultConfigFile(generatedPassword), {
      flag: "wx", // wx means to fail if the path exists.
    })
    logger.info(`Wrote default config file to ${configPath}`)
  } catch (error: any) {
    // EEXIST is fine; we don't want to overwrite existing configurations.
    if (error.code !== "EEXIST") {
      throw error
    }
  }

  const configFile = await fs.readFile(configPath, "utf8")
  return parseConfigFile(configFile, configPath)
}

/**
 * parseConfigFile parses configFile into ConfigArgs.