Node.js create folder or use existing

Question

I already have read the documentation of Node.js and, unless if I missed something, it does not tell what the parameters contain in certain operations, in particular fs.mkdi

Answer 1

You can do all of this with the File System module.

const
  fs = require('fs'),
  dirPath = `path/to/dir`

// Check if directory exists.
fs.access(dirPath, fs.constants.F_OK, (err)=>{
  if (err){
    // Create directory if directory does not exist.
    fs.mkdir(dirPath, {recursive:true}, (err)=>{
      if (err) console.log(`Error creating directory: ${err}`)
      else console.log('Directory created successfully.')
    })
  }
  // Directory now exists.
})

You really don't even need to check if the directory exists. The following code also guarantees that the directory either already exists or is created.

const
  fs = require('fs'),
  dirPath = `path/to/dir`

// Create directory if directory does not exist.
fs.mkdir(dirPath, {recursive:true}, (err)=>{
  if (err) console.log(`Error creating directory: ${err}`)
  // Directory now exists.
})