The latest articles on DEV Community by Shivang Garg (@shivang10). https://dev.to/shivang10 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F361931%2Fb7398ff5-f5eb-4b7d-933c-15e57de25d7c.png https://dev.to/shivang10 en Shivang Garg Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:46:32 +0000 https://dev.to/shivang10/asynchronous-reading-of-directory-and-file-in-node-js-54fn https://dev.to/shivang10/asynchronous-reading-of-directory-and-file-in-node-js-54fn <p>Asynchronous programming in JavaScript certainly makes many operations easy to perform though initially, it is tough to get that.</p> <p><strong>fs.readdir</strong> reads the content of the directory and <strong>fs.readFile</strong> reads the content of the file asynchronously. So, here in this code, we will be reading the directory content and then the files in that directory in an asynchronous way.</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fi%2Fh819wwy5tpei6wvlbpd3.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fi%2Fh819wwy5tpei6wvlbpd3.png" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p>Here, we are first reading the directory, storing the content of the directory in <strong>fileNames</strong> and as soon as directory traversing is done, we then start traversing the files of that directory. </p> <p>Each file is read and after that, the data of that file is pushed back into the dataset.</p> <p><em>If you find anything wrong or any other method for this, do mention in the comment section.</em></p> node javascript webdev