node.js fs.readdir recursive directory search

Question

Any ideas on an async directory search using fs.readdir? I realise that we could introduce recursion and call the read directory function with the next directory to read, bu

Answer 1

Another simple and helpful one

function walkDir(root) {
    const stat = fs.statSync(root);

    if (stat.isDirectory()) {
        const dirs = fs.readdirSync(root).filter(item => !item.startsWith('.'));
        let results = dirs.map(sub => walkDir(`${root}/${sub}`));
        return [].concat(...results);
    } else {
        return root;
    }
}