Initial plumbing and conversion of a simple javascript to typescript (#1790)

* initial conversion of a simple script
* Moved some of the 'gulp' and related npm modules from being runtime dependencies to development dependencies.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/src/helpers/url-helpers.js b/src/helpers/url-helpers.js
deleted file mode 100644
index b0dc9afbb..000000000
--- a/src/helpers/url-helpers.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-// This is taken from: https://benjamin-altpeter.de/shell-openexternal-dangers/
-
-import { URL } from 'url';
-import { ensureDirSync } from 'fs-extra';
-import { shell } from 'electron';
-
-import { ALLOWED_PROTOCOLS } from '../config';
-
-const debug = require('debug')('Ferdi:Helpers:url');
-
-export function isValidExternalURL(url) {
-  let parsedUrl;
-  try {
-    parsedUrl = new URL(url);
-  } catch (_) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  const isAllowed = ALLOWED_PROTOCOLS.includes(parsedUrl.protocol);
-
-  debug('protocol check is', isAllowed, 'for:', url);
-
-  return isAllowed;
-}
-
-export async function openPath(folderName) {
-  ensureDirSync(folderName);
-  shell.openPath(folderName);
-}
-
-// TODO: Need to verify and fix/remove the skipping logic. Ideally, we should never skip this check
-export function openExternalUrl(url, skipValidityCheck = false) {
-  if (skipValidityCheck || isValidExternalURL(url)) {
-    shell.openExternal(url);
-  }
-}