Node.js: How to check if folder is empty or not with out uploading list of files

Question

I am using Node.js.

I want to check if folder is empty or not? One option is to use fs.readdir but it loads whole bunch of

Answer 1

What about globbing? ie, exists myDir/*. It is not supported out of box by node (TOW v0.10.15), but bunch of modules will do that for you, like minimatch