best way to get folder and file list in Javascript

Question

I\'m using node-webkit, and am trying to have a user select a folder, and I\'ll return the directory structure of that folder and recursively get its children.

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Answer 1

I don't like adding new package into my project just to handle this simple task.

And also, I try my best to avoid RECURSIVE algorithm.... since, for most cases it is slower compared to non Recursive one.

So I made a function to get all the folder content (and its sub folder).... NON-Recursively

var getDirectoryContent = function(dirPath) {
    /* 
        get list of files and directories from given dirPath and all it's sub directories
        NON RECURSIVE ALGORITHM
        By. Dreamsavior
    */
    var RESULT = {'files':[], 'dirs':[]};

    var fs = fs||require('fs');
    if (Boolean(dirPath) == false) {
        return RESULT;
    }
    if (fs.existsSync(dirPath) == false) {
        console.warn("Path does not exist : ", dirPath);
        return RESULT;
    }

    var directoryList = []
    var DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR = "\\";
    if (dirPath[dirPath.length -1] !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) dirPath = dirPath+DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

    directoryList.push(dirPath); // initial

    while (directoryList.length > 0) {
        var thisDir  = directoryList.shift(); 
        if (Boolean(fs.existsSync(thisDir) && fs.lstatSync(thisDir).isDirectory()) == false) continue;

        var thisDirContent = fs.readdirSync(thisDir);
        while (thisDirContent.length > 0) { 
            var thisFile  = thisDirContent.shift(); 
            var objPath = thisDir+thisFile

            if (fs.existsSync(objPath) == false) continue;
            if (fs.lstatSync(objPath).isDirectory()) { // is a directory
                let thisDirPath = objPath+DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR; 
                directoryList.push(thisDirPath);
                RESULT['dirs'].push(thisDirPath);

            } else  { // is a file
                RESULT['files'].push(objPath); 

            } 
        } 

    }
    return RESULT;
}

the only drawback of this function is that this is Synchronous function... You have been warned ;)