Do you need to use path.join in node.js?

Question

as everyone knows Windows does paths with backslashes where Unix does paths with forward slashes. node.js provides path.join() to always use the correct slash. So for exampl

Answer 1

I use path.join to ensure folder separators are in the correct places, not necessarily to ensure that it uses forward versus back slashes. For example:

path.join("/var/www", "test")

Will correctly insert the separator between www and test /var/www/test