Beginner's Series to: Node.js

How to create files and directories with Node.js [15 of 26]

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Creating files is a convenient way to export data in your applications, but you also need to make sure you do not overwrite existing files in the process. Learn how you can write to the file system in your Node.js programs while checking for existing files and folders.

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- Demo source code: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/node-essentials

- fs API: https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

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- Beginner's Series to JavaScript: https://aka.ms/JSBeginnerSeries

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chety1

Hi,

Instead of unlink the file I think we can give flag attribute in third parameter like below. Is that right or am i misunderstanding something ?

await fs.writeFile(path.join(salesTotalDir, 'report.json'), '', {
flag: 'w',
});

Last modified Jan 07, 2021 at 5:17AM

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