--- title: I wrote a fully-functioning File Explorer, using TypeScript. description: Xplorer is not written on traditional language like C, C++ or C#. It is written on TypeScript, HTML and SCSS, using the Electron framework. There are four... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-wrote-a-fully-functioning-file-explorer-using-typescript--0mdtfs6oh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I wrote a fully-functioning File Explorer, using TypeScript. | daily.dev og:description: Xplorer is not written on traditional language like C, C++ or C#. It is written on TypeScript, HTML and SCSS, using the Electron framework. There are four... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-wrote-a-fully-functioning-file-explorer-using-typescript--0mdtfs6oh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0MdtFS6Oh.png og:image:alt: I wrote a fully-functioning File Explorer, using TypeScript. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I wrote a fully-functioning File Explorer, using TypeScript. **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 158 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Xplorer is not written on traditional language like C, C++ or C#. It is written on TypeScript, HTML and SCSS, using the Electron framework. There are four available default themes for now. Xplorer helps you organize your files easier by supporting multiple tabs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andrei0x309** · 3 upvotes > Nice design and POC, but if you look for performance, you won't look for an explorer wrote on top of electron lib. **@alexotano179** · 3 upvotes > Amazing work creating File Explorer using typescript Is HTML and electron **@bento** · 1 upvotes > Great project! > I'll run it and take a look this week. > A couple of tips I have: > > 1. You write your doc like JavaScript, no need to add types to the doc in TS. > > ``` > /** >  * Get file icon of a file/folder >  * @param {string} filename - name of the file/folder >  * @param {string} category - category of the file/folder (optional) >  * @param {boolean} HTMLFormat - return with the HTML format (optional) >  * @returns {string} the preview of the file/folder >  */ > ``` > The types were handy in JS because we couldn't check them, but here you already typed them. > ``` > const fileThumbnail = ( >  filePath:... **@\_aleksandar370144868902** · 0 upvotes > I’m impressed! Great job! **@hektor** · 0 upvotes > omg that's really cool!! good job man ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-wrote-a-fully-functioning-file-explorer-using-typescript--0mdtfs6oh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I wrote a fully-functioning File Explorer, using TypeScript.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-wrote-a-fully-functioning-file-explorer-using-typescript--0mdtfs6oh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-wrote-a-fully-functioning-file-explorer-using-typescript--0mdtfs6oh"},"datePublished":"2021-09-25T22:11:12.200Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Xplorer is not written on traditional language like C, C++ or C#. 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Why not use a tuple and assign undefined to it? As in let something: Type | undefined\n\nI can try to help out with this part if you’re interested. \nGreat work!","datePublished":"2021-10-25T06:56:40.250Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/0MdtFS6Oh#c-omCkyp16T","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bento","url":"https://daily.dev/bento","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51338450?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I’m impressed! Great job!","datePublished":"2021-09-26T21:14:07.748Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/0MdtFS6Oh#c-Jiax-g87Q","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Aleksandar","url":"https://daily.dev/_aleksandar370144868902","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1626508690/avatars/XviAI-9sk"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"omg that’s really cool!! good job man","datePublished":"2021-10-01T12:18:46.322Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/0MdtFS6Oh#c-W7Qye8Ftm","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Heitor Castello","url":"https://daily.dev/hektor","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/71948649?v=4"}}]} ```