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Saving the markdown text to the local drive

In this section, we are going to save the markdown into a temporary file. Follow these steps to do so:

1. Import the os and path objects from Node.js:

const os = require('os');const path = require('path');

2. Now, import the file generation function. For the sake of simplicity, we're going to build a very minimalistic happy path function without validation or safety checks. Append the following code to the menu.js file:

function writeTempFile(contents, callback) {  const tempPath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'markdown');  fs.mkdtemp(tempPath, (err, folderName) => {    const filePath = path.join(folderName, 'markdown.md');    fs.writeFile(filePath, contents, 'utf8', () => {      callback(filePath);    });  });}

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