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Top 23 TypeScript Filesystem Projects
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spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
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A big win recently in the e18e space is that chokidar published a new 4.x version!
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Project mention: Taking LLMs to (code) town - part II. Creating a vanilla.js web component toolchain from ground up | dev.to | 2025-01-02
MemFS
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: Folder – An open-source Google Drive alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-23
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wasi-fs-access
This is a demo shell powered by WebAssembly, WASI, Asyncify and File System Access API.
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istextorbinary
Determine if a filename and/or buffer is text or binary. Smarter detection than the other solutions.
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Zeus
🔭 A modern cross platform `ls` with powerful searching and querying capabilities to scale your productivity to the moon 🚀 (and yeah it has file explorer like capabilities too 🤫) (by Borrus-sudo)
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pompelmi
RFI-safe file uploads for Node.js — Express/Koa/Next.js middleware with deep ZIP inspection, MIME/size checks, and optional YARA scanning.
Project mention: Pompelmi – RFI-safe uploads for Node.js with ZIP inspection, MIME/size checks | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-28 -
fastify-file-routes
A Fastify plugin that provides a file system routes, based on the way Next.JS file system routing works, including all possible features.
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calystone
calystone helps you organize your life through your file system with features like note taking and task management
Project mention: Show HN: Calystone – privacy-first note- & task-mnger that works with your files | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-31 -
I've found this to be quite ergonomic and functional:
https://github.com/photostructure/fs-metadata/blob/main/src/...
Usage:
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Filesystem projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | spacedrive | 35,309 |
| 2 | chokidar | 11,598 |
| 3 | rimraf | 5,788 |
| 4 | memfs | 1,930 |
| 5 | fdir | 1,675 |
| 6 | fs-jetpack | 779 |
| 7 | smoke | 598 |
| 8 | folder | 550 |
| 9 | discord-fs | 395 |
| 10 | autarky | 363 |
| 11 | wasi-fs-access | 332 |
| 12 | react-native-file-access | 332 |
| 13 | unionfs | 223 |
| 14 | istextorbinary | 155 |
| 15 | Zeus | 81 |
| 16 | pompelmi | 46 |
| 17 | fastify-file-routes | 36 |
| 18 | torrent-metadata | 35 |
| 19 | my-folder-online | 18 |
| 20 | FileSniffer | 17 |
| 21 | vscode-awesome-tree | 11 |
| 22 | calystone | 11 |
| 23 | fs-metadata | 7 |
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