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Learning Node.js Development
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Learning Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Writing the file in the playground folder

Let's go ahead and comment out all the code we have so far and start with a clean slate. First up, let's go ahead and load in the fs module. The const variable fs will be set equal to require, and we'll pass the fs module that we've used in the past, as shown here:

// var obj = {//  name: 'Andrew'// };// var stringObj = JSON.stringify(obj);// console.log(typeof stringObj);// console.log(stringObj);// var personString = '{"name": "Andrew","age": 25}';// var person = JSON.parse(personString);// console.log(typeof person);// console.log(person);const fs = require('fs');

The next thing we'll do is define the object. This object will be stored inside of our file, and then will be read back and parsed. This ...

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