Promises are a construct in programming languages for asynchronous operations. A promise acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown because the computation is not yet complete. The JavaScript ecosystem had promise implementations before it became part of the language itself. For example, when and Bluebird are …

Node.js includes the needed functionality to interact with files on your local hard disk. Typically, you’re referencing files on disk using a file path. This path can have different formats, like a relative or an absolute path or a file URL. With the transition to ECMAScript modules developers …

Node.js provides all the functionality you need to interact with the local file system. The integrated fs core module has everything needed. It also allows you to detect the file type. If you need to detect whether a given path points to a named pipe (known as FIFO) on …

Interacting with files on your local hard disk is a common task in application development. Node.js comes with the necessary tooling to do so. The Node.js fs core module provides lots of functions to read, write, delete, and interact with files and directories. This tutorial shows you how …

You’re probably using Node.js’ integrated fs core module to interact with the local hard disk. The fs module provides lots of useful low-level methods to interact with files and directories of any kind. This tutorial shows you how to detect whether a given path on the file system …

During development, you may need to store temporary data on the local file system. This temporary data could be anything short-lived, like the content you read from another source. You may want to transfer this temporary content to your application and have to find storage that you don’t need …

In some situations, you may want to detect the underlying operating system of your application. This may happen if you’re using a feature switch or limited feature support on a given platform. For example, you may allow special characters on Unix-based systems and not on Windows. This tutorial shows …

In JavaScript, an array is a dictionary of indexes to values. Typically, you’ll only see the array items in the format like [1, 2, 3]. The sequential order of the sample array has a fixed length of 3. In some situations, you want to dynamically create an array of …