exists-sync
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Replacement for fs.existsSync(), which is being deprecated:
"fs.exists() is an anachronism and exists only for historical reasons. There should almost never be a reason to use it in your own code.
In particular, checking if a file exists before opening it is an anti-pattern that leaves you vulnerable to race conditions: another process may remove the file between the calls to fs.exists() and fs.open(). Just open the file and handle the error when it's not there."
exists-sync will recursively follow symlinks to verify the target file exists, rather than giving a false positive on a symlink whose target has been removed.
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existsSync that also checks for symlinks
The npm package exists-sync receives a total of 98,797 weekly downloads. As such, exists-sync popularity was classified as popular.
We found that exists-sync demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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