Read json file content with require vs fs.readFile

Question

Suppose that for every response from an API, i need to map the value from the response to an existing json file in my web application and display the value from the json. Wh

Answer 1

I only want to point out that it seems require keeps the file in memory even when the variables should be deleted. I had following case:

for (const file of fs.readdirSync('dir/contains/jsons')) {
  // this variable should be deleted after each loop
  // but actually not, perhaps because of "require"
  // it leads to "heap out of memory" error
  const json = require('dir/contains/jsons/' + file);
}

for (const file of fs.readdirSync('dir/contains/jsons')) {
  // this one with "readFileSync" works well
  const json = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('dir/contains/jsons/' + file));
}

The first loop with require can't read all JSON files because of "heap out of memory" error. The second loop with readFile works.