Explorer currently provides a custom file browser as sidebar whose only advantage over the built in file browser are its extending file icons.
- 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,Deletefiles - Also the
Show in Findercommand 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)
- Duplicating files
- Filtering files
- Moving files
- Copy paths
- Everything not listed as feature above
Explorer is currently only compatible with local working directories.
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.
See settings of the extension and use the descriptions for guidance.
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.
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.