Node.js built-in modules famously are not promise-based.

This is for historical reasons, as those modules were created before promises were a thing.

We’ve had promisify for quite some time, but I recently found out Node.js provides a new API that’s promise-based.

I thought it was new but it’s been introduced in Node.js 10 (2018, it’s been a while!).

At the moment it only works for the fs built-in module.

I’m not sure if this will be ported to other native modules soon.

Here’s how to use it:

import * as fs from 'node:fs/promises';

| Note the node:fs convention which can be now used to identify native modules

Now you can use any of the fs methods using promises or await:

const posts = await fs.readdir('content')

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	How to check if a file exists in Node.js
2:	How to create an empty file in Node.js
3:	How to get the names of all the files in a folder in Node
4:	How to get the last updated date of a file using Node.js
5:	How to remove a file with Node.js
6:	How to write a JSON object to file in Node.js
7:	How to empty a folder in Node.js
8:	Working with file descriptors in Node
9:	Node File Paths
10:	Node file stats
11:	Working with folders in Node
12:	▶︎ How to use the Node.js fs module with async/await
13:	How to get the current folder in Node
14:	How to get the file extension in Node.js from the MIME type
15:	How to get the file extension in Node.js
16:	How to list files in a folder in Node
17:	How to mass rename files in Node.js
18:	Node.js get all files in a folder recursively
19:	Incrementing multiple folders numbers at once using Node.js
20:	Save some text to a file in Node.js