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As we manage files there will be errors, and we need to handle them somehow. Panel unable to fetch directory listing The first error condition we should deal with is when the panel is unable to fetch the directory listing. This could happen…
The next operation we need to implement is deleting files - or more accurately moving files to trash, as no file manager in 2021 should actually hard delete files. src/commands.js As usual we start by adding a new command to the commands li…
It is pretty much the point of a file manager that it will change the files on your computer, but so far the app only fetched the list of files when we navigated to a new directory, and never refreshed it. It's time to add functionality to …
It's time to add our first dialog - one for creating a new directory. But wait, it's not actually our first one, command palette is a dialog too. So before we do anything let's refactor some code so it supports both dialogs - and more we'll…
As I was adding dialogs to the file manager, I noticed that a lot of that new functionality will require path manipulation. And it's already the most messy part of the code. Path manipulation isn't difficult, so it's tempting to just do som…
