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Sugared Maple
Sugared Maple

Reputation: 11

How to find tmp folder made by nodejs filesystem?

I was using fs to write values from textarea into a file and had issues with the path until I found on stackoverflow that the path has to be a tmp folder. I did that and the terminal shows the function was successful but now I don't know where that folder is and how I can access.

app.post('/scheduleTweet', function (req, res) {
 fs.writeFile('/tmp/scheduleTweet', req.body.text, err => {
  if (err) {
   console.error(err);
  } else{
   console.log("success");
  }
 });
})

Can somebody help me please? I'm self taught so not really sure what to google even.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 942

Answers (1)

Heiko Theißen
Heiko Theißen

Reputation: 16728

If the path starts with a /, then fs.writeFile writes to that path on the current drive, for example, to C:/tmp/schedule.txt. Otherwise, it writes relative to the current working directory of the node process. It's easier if you make it relative to the directory containing your Javascript code: fs.writeFile(__dirname + "/tmp/schedule.txt", ...).

Upvotes: 2

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