Question

How do I go through a folder and find out which is the newest created/modified file and put the full path of it into a var as string?

Haven’t really figured out io/best practices for io

Answer 1

Take a look at http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_class_fs_stats

look at the ctime or mtime to find the created and modified time.

Something like this:

var fs = require('fs');

fs.readdir(".",function(err, list){
    list.forEach(function(file){
        console.log(file);
        stats = fs.statSync(file);
        console.log(stats.mtime);
        console.log(stats.ctime);
    })
})

loops the current directory (.) and logs the file name, grabs the file stats and logs the modified time (mtime) and create time (ctime)