Get all files with infos(name, type, size) within directory node-fs

Question

I have a route to a location where I want to make a read

var route = ('F:\\uploads\\ponys');

with var rez = fs.readdirSync(route, 'utf8'); it return an Array of all files(and folders) inside of the route.

console.log(rez);
[ 'file.rtf',
  'Course.rtf',
  'extra.png',
  'ar102.rar',
  'New folder']

I want to return an JSON Object which contains name, type and size. How I can proceed to obtain this:

{
  "files":[
    {"name": "file", "type": "rtf", "size": 3445},  [or with "."(.rtf)]
    {"name": "Course", "type": "rtf", "size": 900},
    {"name": "extra", "type": "png", "size": 2424},
    {"name": "ar102", "type": "rar", "size": 340432},
    {"name": "New folder", "type": "", "size": 123456789} 
  ]
}

Answer 1

For each file in a dir, you're trying to get 3 values:

1. file name: already got it with readdirSync)
2. file extension: use path.extname(filename)
3. file size: use fs.statSync(filename).size

1. Getting file extension example

const path = require('path');
const extension = path.extname('index.html');
// 'html'

2. Getting file size example

const fs = require('fs');
const fileSizeInBytes = fs.statSync('file.html').size;

3. Complete approach

const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');

const getFileInfoFromFolder = (route) => {
  const files = fs.readdirSync(route, 'utf8');
  const response = [];
  for (let file of files) {
    const extension = path.extname(file);
    const fileSizeInBytes = fs.statSync(route + file).size;
    response.push({ name: file, extension, fileSizeInBytes });
  }
  return response;
}

const { name, extension, fileSizeInBytes } = getFileInfoFromFolder("...")