Chapter 6. File system: Synchronous and asynchronous approaches to files
This chapter covers
- Understanding the fs module and its components
- Working with configuration files and file descriptors
- Using file-locking techniques
- Recursive file operations
- Writing a file database
- Watching files and directories
As we’ve noted in previous chapters, Node’s core modules typically stick to a low-level API. This allows for various (even competing) ideas and implementations of higher-level concepts like web frameworks, file parsers, and command-line tools to exist as third-party modules. The fs (or file system) module is no different.
The fs module allows the developer to interact with the file system by providing
- POSIX file I/O primitives
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