list files in directory in JavaScript and print them on the page

[gucio321]

Hi everyone! Welcome to my physic-exercises website!
I've a plan, to add a section when I can add and share certain files.
It could look as follows:

• shared directory which can be soft-linked to assets/shared/data
• assets/shared needs to have index.md which lists all the content of data dir and prints it in a table
  My first idea is to use JavaScript (js) to do so with raw:: html sphinx instuction.
  Does anyone have any idea, how to do so?

[gucio321]

the other solution is using PHP, but currenlty no idea, how to use it with sphinx

here is the php code:

<?php
   $dir = "./path/to/directory";
   $cdir = scandir($dir);
   foreach ($cdir as $key => $value)
   {
     print "<h1><a href=\"" . $dir . "/" .  $value . "\" download=\"" . $value . "\" > #" . $value . "</a></h1><hr>";
   }

   return $result;
?>

[gucio321]

well, lets drop this PHP idea. IIRC php would work on gh, but it will make local development much more difficult.

Atm, I can imagine, that

var fs = require('fs');
var files = fs.readdirSync('/path/to/directory');

may work, however (as long as require is node.js command) we cannot use it.
For now I found this repo: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS and will work on introduction.