Work With Directories in Node.js

Read the content of a directory

To list the content of a directory, you can use the fs.readdirSync() static method:

const files = fs.readdirSync(path, { withFileTypes?, recursive? });

Where:

• files is an array of filenames.
• path is the path to the target directory.
• withFileTypes is an optional boolean used to return fs.Dirent objects instead of strings, including the type of each file.
• recursive is an optional boolean used to recursively list the content of the target directory.

Note: This function is similar to the Unix ls command.

Example

Let's consider this script that generates a visual tree-like structure of a directory:

const fs = require('node:fs');const path = require('node:path');