I’m creating an Electron application and I want to stream an image to a file (so basically download it). I want to use the native Fetch API because the request module would be a big overhead. But there is no pipe method on the response, so I can’t do something like So how can I combine fetch and fs.createWriteStream? Answer
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Accessing data parsed by readline & fs in node.js outside of the callback function
This question is different from the one linked as already having an answer. It is specifically this piece of code adapted from node.js documentation regarding the use of fs and readfile and looking for an end of file flag, which I’ve learned is readfile.close method. Thanks for the answer. I wrote a small utility locally to try to convert a
How to delete all pictures of an directory
I am trying to delete all pictures of an directory. But getting error on directory path. And also dont know how to get all pictures path & delete all of them. My directory structure : I have tried this : But getting error : Cannot find module ‘../tmp/upload’ Need help to get the path & all pictures on upload folder
Copy folder recursively in Node.js
Is there an easier way to copy a folder and all its content without manually doing a sequence of fs.readir, fs.readfile, fs.writefile recursively? I am just wondering if I’m missing a function which would ideally work like this: Regarding this historic question. Note that fs.cp and fs.cpSync can copy folders recursively and are available in Node v16+ Answer Since Node
How to append to a file in Node?
I am trying to append a string to a log file. However writeFile will erase the content each time before writing the string. Any idea how to do this the easy way? Answer For occasional appends, you can use appendFile, which creates a new file handle each time it’s called: Asynchronously: Synchronously: But if you append repeatedly to the same