Read a file in Node.js

Question

I\'m quite puzzled with reading files in Node.js.

fs.open(\'./start.html\', \'r\', function(err, fileToRead){
    if (!err){
        fs.readFile(fileToRead,         


        

Answer 1

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');

exports.testDir = path.dirname(__filename);
exports.fixturesDir = path.join(exports.testDir, 'fixtures');
exports.libDir = path.join(exports.testDir, '../lib');
exports.tmpDir = path.join(exports.testDir, 'tmp');
exports.PORT = +process.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT || 12346;

// Read File
fs.readFile(exports.tmpDir+'/start.html', 'utf-8', function(err, content) {
  if (err) {
    got_error = true;
  } else {
    console.log('cat returned some content: ' + content);
    console.log('this shouldn\'t happen as the file doesn\'t exist...');
    //assert.equal(true, false);
  }
});