how to use the dirent function from the fs-extra library in typescript

To use the dirent function from the fs-extra library in TypeScript, you can follow these steps:

1. Install fs-extra using npm:

npm install --save fs-extra
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2. Import the fsExtra module and the Dirent interface in your TypeScript file:

index.ts
import * as fsExtra from 'fs-extra';
import { Dirent } from 'fs-extra';
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3. Use the readdirSync function from the fsExtra module to read the contents of a directory:

index.ts
const dirPath = '/path/to/directory';
const dirContents: Dirent[] = fsExtra.readdirSync(dirPath, { withFileTypes: true });
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The withFileTypes option tells readdirSync to return an array of Dirent objects instead of a string array of filenames.

4. You can now use the Dirent objects to get information about each item in the directory:

index.ts
for (const dirent of dirContents) {
  if (dirent.isDirectory()) {
    console.log(`${dirent.name} is a directory`);
  } else if (dirent.isFile()) {
    console.log(`${dirent.name} is a file`);
  }
}
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The isDirectory and isFile methods of the Dirent objects can be used to determine if each item is a directory or a file.