Node.js Filesystem I/O Writing to a file using writeFile or writeFileSync
Example
var fs = require('fs');
// Save the string "Hello world!" in a file called "hello.txt" in
// the directory "/tmp" using the default encoding (utf8).
// This operation will be completed in background and the callback
// will be called when it is either done or failed.
fs.writeFile('/tmp/hello.txt', 'Hello world!', function(err) {
// If an error occurred, show it and return
if(err) return console.error(err);
// Successfully wrote to the file!
});
// Save binary data to a file called "binary.txt" in the current
// directory. Again, the operation will be completed in background.
var buffer = new Buffer([ 0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f ]);
fs.writeFile('binary.txt', buffer, function(err) {
// If an error occurred, show it and return
if(err) return console.error(err);
// Successfully wrote binary contents to the file!
});
fs.writeFileSync behaves similarly to fs.writeFile, but does not take a callback as it completes synchronously and therefore blocks the main thread. Most node.js developers prefer the asynchronous variants which will cause virtually no delay in the program execution.
Note: Blocking the main thread is bad practice in node.js. Synchronous function should only be used when debugging or when no other options are availables.
// Write a string to another file and set the file mode to 0755
try {
fs.writeFileSync('sync.txt', 'anni', { mode: 0o755 });
} catch(err) {
// An error occurred
console.error(err);
}
