efficient way to get an array of all file paths from directory

npm i cup-readdir

cup-readdir uses asynchronous promises when handling subdirectory recursion. The enhancement in speed is clearly visible when tested against similar packages, using console.time() on the retrieval of 10,201 files (101 subdirectories, 101 files per directory). Although it has fewer features than other packages, its performance is the fastest overall.

const cupr = require('cup-readdir')

cupr.getAllFilePaths('path/to/dir').then(paths => {
  // do something with file paths
  console.log(paths)
})

This function returns a promise which will be resolved with an array of all file paths found recursively in the directory dir(<string>) excluding directory names.

const cupr = require('cup-readdir')

cupr.getAllFilePaths('path/to/dir').then(paths => {
  // sort by ascending file size
  return cupr.sort(paths, 'size')
})
.then(fileInfos => {
  for (const fileInfo of fileInfos) {
    // do something with FileInfo objects
  }
})

This function takes in an array of file paths and returns a list of <FileInfo> objects sorted by the given property. property (<string>) can be any fs.stats property (not bigint version). Sorted array of <FileInfo> objects are in ascending order, but the optional descendingOrder (<boolean>) parameter can be set to true to return that in descending order.

A <FileInfo> object has all properties of an fs.stats object with an additional url property storing file path. Some of the properties are shown below.

FileInfo {
  url: "js/helper.js", // path to file
  birthtime: Mon, 10 Oct 2021 23:24:11 GMT, // <Date> object storing date of file creation
  size: 527, // size of file in bytes
  mode: 33188 // file type and mode
  // ...
}

const cupr = require('cup-readdir')
const p = require('path')

// Get photos for blog carousel
async function getRecentPhotos(dir) {
  let paths = await cupr.getAllFilePaths(dir)
  let photos = paths.filter(path => p.extname(path) == '.png')

  // sort list of photos in descending order of creation time
  return await cupr.sort(photos, 'birthtimeMs', true)
}

It's like cup noodles; quick and not fancy.

Mocha is used for testing. Test script is located in test/test.js.

npm test

MIT

Copyright 2021 blubitz