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Beginning API Development with Node.js
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Beginning API Development with Node.js

by Anthony Nandaa
July 2018
Beginner
100 pages
2h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Activity: Transforming a Text File Using an Async Function

Before You Begin

You should have already gone through the previous activities.

Aim

Read the file (using fs.readFile), in-file.txt, properly case format the names (using the lodash function, startCase), then sort the names in alphabetical order and write them out to a separate file out-file.txt (using fs.writeFile).

Scenario

We have a file, in-file.txt, containing a list of peoples' names. Some of the names have not been properly case formatted, for example, john doe should be changed to John Doe.

Steps for Completion

  1. In Lesson-1, create another folder called activity-c.

  2. On the Terminal, change directory to activity-c and run the following command:
npm init
  1. Just like in the previous ...
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