For now I use
fs.openSync(filepath, 'a')
But it’s a little tricky. Is there a ‘standard’ way to create an empty file in Node.js?
For now I use fs.openSync(filepath, ‘a’) But it’s a little tricky. Is there a
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For now I use
fs.openSync(filepath, 'a')
But it’s a little tricky. Is there a ‘standard’ way to create an empty file in Node.js?
If you want to force the file to be empty then you want to use the
'w'flag instead:That will truncate the file if it exists and create it if it doesn’t.
Wrap it in an
fs.closeSynccall if you don’t need the file descriptor it returns.