File explorer API?

Developers: Plugin & API
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Taking my first steps in plugin development, without too much Node or Typescript experience.

I’m aiming for a basic plugin that can fold/unfold specific folder sets in the File Explorer. Ran through the basic tutorial and can find my way through the standard API.
But the file exporer pane is a core plugin, and I can’t find any documentation on its API? Is there some source I’m missing? Or are there efficient ways to find out via the developer console?

Thanks for any help!

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You can access the file explorer view from the dev console by

app.workspace.getLeavesOfType('file-explorer')[0].view

And it seems to have saveFolds/loadFolds/getFoldKey methods. There isn’t any documentation about this view class, but you can read the (minified) source code from the dev tools.