Can I generate TOC items based on .md files in directory?

[danroot]

My end goal is to let documentation writers only have to place a .md file in the project without needing to update toc.yml when adding documentation. I'm not set on any particular way of accomplishing that, but am envisioning:

toc.yml

- name: How-to Documents
   href: howtos/index.md
   items: howtos/**.md

/howtos/foo.md

---
name: How to Foo
---
article on how to foo

/howtos/bar.md

---
name: How to Bar
---
article on how to bar

Resulting TOC:

How to Documents (links to index.md)
|_ How to Foo (links to howtos/foo.md)
|_ How to Bar (links to howtos/bar.md)

Is this possible today out-of-the-box? If not, what would be the "easiest" way to go about adding this? I've thought about writing some powershell script to generate the toc.yml, but wasn't sure that was best approach.

[filzrev]

Currently there is no official tool to creating toc.yml based on folder structure. (See: #3124).
But some third-party tools are available for this purpose.

For example, following pages show DocFxTocGenerator tool.

https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/extensions/tools.html

Usage of DocFxTocGenerator

dotnet tool install DocFxTocGenerator --global
DocFxTocGenerator -d ./docs