dir-recurse.js

const { fdir } = require("fdir");

const api = new fdir()
    .exclude((dirName, dirPath) => dirName.startsWith("."))
    .withFullPaths()
    // .withSymlinks() // with this line uncommented it takes 12s instead of 1s to crawl home directory
    .crawl("/Users/nlogan")
;

const files = api.sync();
console.log(files.length);