Nova^™

Explorer currently provides a custom file browser as sidebar whose only advantage over the built in file browser are its extending file icons.

Features

• Provides additional file icons for better orientation An endings icon reference document can be found at https://github.com/jo-te/nova-explorer/blob/main/Explorer.novaextension/Docs/endings-icon-references.md.
• Minimal features you expect from a file browser: Create, Open, Rename, Delete files
• Also the Show in Finder command is included in case you need an actual grown file browser
• Allows to display folders before files or vice versa
• Allows to hide specific files or folders (by exact matching)

Features you may miss

• Duplicating files
• Filtering files
• Moving files
• Copy paths
• Everything not listed as feature above

Requirements

Explorer is currently only compatible with local working directories.

Usage

Open it via the sidebar center and move it into the sidebar dock. Voilà it's ready to use. Double-click on elements to open them. Right-click on elements to interact with them. Use the button on the right side of the header of the sidebar to change order of elements. Use the second button from right to reload all open elements and apply changes of configuration.

Configuration

See settings of the extension and use the descriptions for guidance.

Miscellaneous

Credits

Big thanks goes to apexskier for contributing type definitons (@types/nova-editor and also @types/nova-editor-node) for Nova's API to the community which made development much easier.

Icon requests

Currently the provided file icons only cover a small area of frontend development. Maybe you are missing some important icons for your daily development work. Don't hesitate to request icons via the repository.

Version 1.1.1

New

• Added new custom icon for .astro, .py and .env files.
• Added new custom icon for Docker related files.

Version 1.1.0

New

• Added new custom icons for .json, .md and .tsbuildinfo files and for .git folder.
• Added button in sidebar to allow toggling order of items in three ways: Independent of type, Folders first, Files first.
• Added configuration option to set initial order of file and folder items in sidebar.
• Added configuration option to hide specific files or folders in sidebar.

Fixes

• Fixed issue of not allowing to manually reload root of file browser.

Updates

• Increased resolution of custom icons for files and folders.

Version 1.0.3

Fixes

• Fixed issue with not taking over input value as initial value of new dialog when trying to create a file or folder with an invalid name.
• Fixed issue of not revealing files when creating or renaming files in root directory.
• Fixed issue of not showing create file or folder dialog after deleting a file in root directory via the file browser.

Updates

• Moved license file to extension itself.

Version 1.0.2

Updates

• Updated references in extension's README.

Version 1.0.1

Faulty release

Version 1.0.0

Initial release

MIT License

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