How do you get a list of the names of all files present in a directory in Node.js?

I'm assuming from your question that you don't want directories names, just files.

### Directory Structure Example

```none
animals
├── all.jpg
├── mammals
│ └── cat.jpg
│ └── dog.jpg
└── insects
└── bee.jpg
```


### `Walk` function

Credits go to [Justin Maier][1] in [this gist][2]

If you want *just an array* of the files paths use `return_object: false`:

```js
const fs = require('fs').promises;
const path = require('path');

async function walk(dir) {
let files = await fs.readdir(dir);
files = await Promise.all(files.map(async file => {
const filePath = path.join(dir, file);
const stats = await fs.stat(filePath);
if (stats.isDirectory()) return walk(filePath);
else if(stats.isFile()) return filePath;
}));

return files.reduce((all, folderContents) => all.concat(folderContents), []);
}
```

### Usage

```js
async function main() {
console.log(await walk('animals'))
}
```

### Output

```js
[
"/animals/all.jpg",
"/animals/mammals/cat.jpg",
"/animals/mammals/dog.jpg",
"/animals/insects/bee.jpg"
];
```


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