Interacting with File Descriptors in Node

Learn how to efficiently interact with file descriptors in Node.js. In order to work with files in your filesystem using Node.js, you need to obtain a file descriptor. A file descriptor can be obtained by opening a file using the open() method provided by the fs module: const fs = require('fs'); fs.open('/Users/flavio/test.txt', 'r', (err, fd) => { // fd is the file descriptor }); In the above code, the second parameter 'r' signifies that the file should be opened for reading....