Copy folder recursively in Node.js

Question

Is there an easier way to copy a folder and all its content without manually doing a sequence of fs.readir, fs.readfile, fs.writefile

Answer 1

If you want to copy all contents of source directory recursively then you need to pass recursive option as true and try catch is documented way by fs-extra for sync

As fs-extra is complete replacement of fs so you don't need to import the base module

const fs = require('fs-extra');
let sourceDir = '/tmp/src_dir';
let destDir = '/tmp/dest_dir';
try {
  fs.copySync(sourceDir, destDir, { recursive: true })
  console.log('success!')
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err)
}