Read folder and subfolders as a single file

[butera-simone]

I'm sorry, this library seems great but not having any experience with browser storage I'm finding the docs very counter-intuitive. I managed to make it do most of what I need, but as the title suggests I'm trying to understand if there's a way to access a folders & its subfolders as a single file (to, for example, download it, or send it via webRTC, or anything else)

[jcubic]

You will need to create a zip or tar file. There is no other way to download a directory as a single file on any system including the browser. And this is have nothing to do with this library.

[jcubic]

You need to traverse a tree and create a zip file, the same as you do with NodeJS.

[butera-simone]

Yeah I intuitively thought about doing that as a last option, but I hoped I could find a library that abstracted it. Like, if you could pass the path of the folder to a method and get an array containing all of the files? Idk, thanks anyways 👍

[jcubic]

You can always create a library like this if you need it.

[butera-simone]

Yeah I'm not saying a library should have it, I'm saying it could have it, and for what I'm building it would make sense to check for libraries with high level management of files before writing it from scratch

This issue was a question about the library not a proposal to change it

[jcubic]

You need to do research to find out if such a library exists. Maybe ask on Reddit. This library doesn't have such a thing this is just Node FS implementation. You can find in the Search engine how to create single file from directory in NodeJS.

[jcubic]

Ok, I'm closing this.

[butera-simone]

Sure! I'm looking through various libraries rn, thanks for your answers 👍