Create Directory When Writing To File In Node.js

Question

I\'ve been tinkering with Node.js and found a little problem. I\'ve got a script which resides in a directory called data. I want the script to write some data to

Answer 1

If you don't want to use any additional package, you can call the following function before creating your file:

var path = require('path'),
    fs = require('fs');

function ensureDirectoryExistence(filePath) {
  var dirname = path.dirname(filePath);
  if (fs.existsSync(dirname)) {
    return true;
  }
  ensureDirectoryExistence(dirname);
  fs.mkdirSync(dirname);
}