# fdir

> The fastest directory crawler & globbing alternative to glob, fast-glob, & tiny-glob. Crawls 1m files in < 1s

Latest version **6.5.0** (published 2025-08-14) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install fdir
pnpm add fdir
yarn add fdir
bun add fdir
```

## Health

**Score 40/100 (D)** — status: maintenance-mode.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads.

Negative: stale; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 6.5.0 |
| Published | 2025-08-14 |
| First published | 2020-03-13 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >=12.0.0 |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Unpacked size | 52 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 1736 |
| Author | thecodrr |
| Maintainers | thecodrr |
| Keywords | util, os, sys, fs, walk, crawler, directory, files, io, tiny-glob, glob, fast-glob, speed, javascript, nodejs |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fdir
- Repository: https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir
- Homepage: https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/fdir

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## Recent versions

- 6.5.0 (latest) — 2025-08-14
- 6.4.6 — 2025-06-10
- 6.4.5 — 2025-05-28
- 6.4.4 — 2025-04-19
- 6.4.3 — 2025-01-17
- 6.4.2 — 2024-10-16
- 6.4.1 — 2024-10-16
- 6.4.0 — 2024-09-30
- 6.3.0 — 2024-08-25
- 6.2.0 — 2024-07-22
- 6.1.1 — 2023-11-05
- 6.1.0 — 2023-08-13
- 6.0.2 — 2023-07-31
- 6.0.1 — 2023-02-09
- 6.0.0 — 2023-02-08
- … 30 more at https://npm.io/package/fdir/versions

## README

<p align="center">
<img src="https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir/raw/master/assets/fdir.gif" width="75%"/>

<h1 align="center">The Fastest Directory Crawler & Globber for NodeJS</h1>
<p align="center">
  <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/fdir"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/fdir?style=for-the-badge"/></a>
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  <a href="./LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/thecodrr/fdir?style=for-the-badge"/></a>
</p>
</p>

⚡ **The Fastest:** Nothing similar (in the NodeJS world) beats `fdir` in speed. It can easily crawl a directory containing **1 million files in < 1 second.**

💡 **Stupidly Easy:** `fdir` uses expressive Builder pattern to build the crawler increasing code readability.

🤖 **Zero Dependencies\*:** `fdir` only uses NodeJS `fs` & `path` modules.

🕺 **Astonishingly Small:** < 2KB in size gzipped & minified.

🖮 **Hackable:** Extending `fdir` is extremely simple now that the new Builder API is here. Feel free to experiment around.

_\* `picomatch` must be installed manually by the user to support globbing._

## 🚄 Quickstart

### Installation

You can install using `npm`:

```sh
$ npm i fdir
```

or Yarn:

```sh
$ yarn add fdir
```

### Usage

```ts
import { fdir } from "fdir";

// create the builder
const api = new fdir().withFullPaths().crawl("path/to/dir");

// get all files in a directory synchronously
const files = api.sync();

// or asynchronously
api.withPromise().then((files) => {
  // do something with the result here.
});
```

## Documentation:

Documentation for all methods is available [here](/documentation.md).

## 📊 Benchmarks:

Please check the benchmark against the latest version [here](/BENCHMARKS.md).

## 🙏Used by:

`fdir` is downloaded over 200k+ times a week by projects around the world. Here's a list of some notable projects using `fdir` in production:

> Note: if you think your project should be here, feel free to open an issue. Notable is anything with a considerable amount of GitHub stars.

1. [rollup/plugins](https://github.com/rollup/plugins)
2. [SuperchupuDev/tinyglobby](https://github.com/SuperchupuDev/tinyglobby)
3. [pulumi/pulumi](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi)
4. [dotenvx/dotenvx](https://github.com/dotenvx/dotenvx)
5. [mdn/yari](https://github.com/mdn/yari)
6. [streetwriters/notesnook](https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook)
7. [imba/imba](https://github.com/imba/imba)
8. [moroshko/react-scanner](https://github.com/moroshko/react-scanner)
9. [netlify/build](https://github.com/netlify/build)
10. [yassinedoghri/astro-i18next](https://github.com/yassinedoghri/astro-i18next)
11. [selfrefactor/rambda](https://github.com/selfrefactor/rambda)
12. [whyboris/Video-Hub-App](https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App)

## 🦮 LICENSE

Copyright &copy; 2024 Abdullah Atta under MIT. [Read full text here.](https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir/raw/master/LICENSE)

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