How to get folder path using electron

Question

I am very new to the electron. Can anyone suggest me how to get a local folder's relative path using the electron? JavaScript does not have that capability.

I have a Choose File button(see snapshot), so my question is that when I select a folder and click on the open button then it should return a whole directory path.

Answer 1

As @phuongle pointed out in the comments you want to use showOpenDialog(). Something like this:

var remote = require('remote'); var dialog = remote.require('electron').dialog;  var path = dialog.showOpenDialog({     properties: ['openDirectory'] }); 

UPDATE: If the above isn't working for your current Electron version, you should try more modern importing:

const {dialog} = require('electron').remote; 

In addition, in order to use remote, you need to set enableRemoteModule when creating your window in your main process:

const myWindow = new BrowserWindow({     webPreferences: {         enableRemoteModule: true     } }); 

Answer 2

In Electron we can select the directory by specifying simple input element with type="file" and webkitdirectory attribute'. <input id="myFile" type="file" webkitdirectory /> and we can get the directory full path with the path property of File object document.getElementById("myFile").files[0].path