Node.js get all files in a folder recursively
How do you list all the files in a folder in Node.js?
I had the need to get all the files in a folder recursively.
The best way I found to do that was to install the glob
library:
npm install glob
I wanted to look for all index.md
files included in the content/post
folder, each file being in its own directory structure, possibly under multiple subfolders:
content/post/first/index.md
content/post/second/index.md
content/post/another/test/index.md
Here’s how I did it:
const glob = require('glob')
const root_folder = 'content/post'
glob(root_folder + '/**/index.md', (err, files) => {
if (err) {
console.log('Error', err)
} else {
console.log(files)
}
})
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