last modified file date in node.js

Question

I\'m trying to retrieve the last modified date of a file on the server using node.js.

I\'ve tried

file.lastModified;

and

Answer 1

You should use the stat function :

According to the documentation :

fs.stat(path, [callback])

Asynchronous stat(2). The callback gets two arguments (err, stats) where stats is a fs.Stats object. It looks like this:

{ dev: 2049
, ino: 305352
, mode: 16877
, nlink: 12
, uid: 1000
, gid: 1000
, rdev: 0
, size: 4096
, blksize: 4096
, blocks: 8
, atime: '2009-06-29T11:11:55Z'
, mtime: '2009-06-29T11:11:40Z'
, ctime: '2009-06-29T11:11:40Z' 
}

As you can see, the mtime is the last modified time.