Lightweight methods for reading from the file system, async and sync.
Install with npm:
npm i read-file --save
Read files asynchronously.
var file = require('read-file');
file.readFileSync('foo.txt');
Read files synchronously.
var file = require('read-file');
file.readFile('foo.txt', callback);
Jon Schlinkert
Brian Woodward
Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert, contributors.
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb-cli on June 10, 2014.
FAQs
Thin wrapper around fs.readFile and fs.readFileSync that also strips byte order marks when `utf8` encoding is chosen. Also optionally replaces windows newlines with unix newlines.
The npm package read-file receives a total of 24,635 weekly downloads. As such, read-file popularity was classified as popular.
We found that read-file demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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