For a long time I wanted to experiment with TypeScript and Electron. I chose to create a native file manager using these technologies: this looked like an interesting project with enough challenges.

Features

• Split-view window
• Tabs support
• Fully keyboard controlled
• Fully localized (French & English available)
• Dark Mode with automatic detection (macOS Mojave)
• Open a terminal from any folder
• Plugin-based: local supported for now, ftp in the works

Technical

React-Explorer is written in TypeScript makes use of the following:

• Mobx: reactive state management
• Blueprintjs: a beautiful React UI toolkit
• CI testing with Travis, Jest, Cypress

I wrote about it here: Electron: how to configure NodeJS and runtime Chrome flags.

Full source code and Mac, Windows & Linux builds can be downloaded on GitHub.