Learning Node.js Development

Fetching new notes

I'll add code for fetching new notes where I define the notes and note variables. As shown in the following code, we'll use fs.readFileSync, which we've already explored. This will take the filename, in our case, notes-data.JSON. Now, we will want to store the return value from readFileSync on a variable; I'll call that variable, notesString:

var notesString = fs.readFileSync('notes-data.json');

Since this is the string version, we haven't passed it through the JSON.parse method. So, I can set notes (the variable we defined earlier in addNote function) equal to the return value from the JSON.parse method. Then JSON.parse will take the string from the file we read and it will parse it into an array; we could pass in notesString ...