[javascript] Is there a way to return a list of all the image file names from a folder using only Javascript?

IMHO, Edizkan Adil Ata's idea is actually the most proper way. It extracts the URLs of anchor tags and puts them in a different tag. And if you don't want to let the anchors being seen by the page visitor then just .hide() them all with JQuery or display: none; in CSS.

Also you can perform prefetching, like this:

<link rel="prefetch" href="imagefolder/clouds.jpg" />

That way you don't have to hide it and still can extract the path to the image.