scandir-native

A fs.scandir method with some features.

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Install

$ npm i scandir-native

⚠️ Compiling on Windows machines requires the node-gyp prerequisites.

Supports

• Node.js (4, 6, 8 and etc.)
• Node.js with ChakraCore (below 8.4.0 on macOS and Linux (works fine on Windows), see this issue)

Why?

• Temporary solution for «A proposal to add fs.scandir method to FS module».

Usage

const scandir = require('scandir-native');
 
scandir.scandir('.', (err, entries) => {
    if (err) {
        console.error(err); // Standard FS errors
        return;
    }
 
    console.dir(entries, { colors: true });
    // [{ name: 'filepath', type: 2 }, { name: 'dirpath', type: 1 }]
});

API

FS_TYPE_CONSTANTS

0 is 'FS_UNKNOWN'
1 is 'FS_FILE'
2 is 'FS_DIR'
3 is 'FS_LINK'
4 is 'FS_FIFO'
5 is 'FS_SOCKET'
6 is 'FS_CHAR'
7 is 'FS_BLOCK'

Enum for entry type builded from and for uv_dirent_type_t.

IScandirEntry

• name String
• type FILE_TYPE_CONSTANTS

TypeScript interface for each entry in the directory.

.scandir(path, callback) => void

• path String
• callback Function
  • err Error
  • entries IScandirEntry[]

Asynchronous scandir(3). Reads the contents of a directory. The callback gets two arguments (err, entries) where entries is an array of objects (name and type) of the files in the directory excluding . and ...

.scandirSync(path) => IScandirEntry[]

• path String
• returns IScandirEntry[]

Synchronous scandir(3). Returns an array of objects (name and type) excluding . and ...

Example

const scandir = require('scandir-native');
 
const dirs: string[] = [];
const nonDirs: string[] = [];
 
scandir.scandir('.', (err, entries) => {
    if (err) {
        console.error(err); // Standard FS errors
        return;
    }
 
    entries.forEach((entry) => {
        if (entry.type === scandir.FS_TYPE_CONSTANTS.FS_DIR) {
            dirs.push(entry.name);
        } else {
            nonDirs.push(entry.name);
        }
    })
});

Changelog

See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version.

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license.