Node.js – How to check if Directory or File exists

In this tutorial we will learn How to check if a Directory or a File exists using Node.js. The built-in fs module in Node.js helps in working with file system. It provides different functions to create, rename, delete, edit files, directory and folder.

fs.existSync() function checks if a provided file or a folder exists or not.

Check if a File exists using fs.existsSync():

The checkExists(pathToCheck) will check the file exists or not using fs.existsSync() function and log a output. In this code we are checking for 2 files with name wallpaper1.png and wallpaper2.png inside folder: media>images

The folder structure is given after the code example for the reference.

const fs = require("fs");

let file1 = './media/images/wallpaper1.png';
let file2 = './media/images/wallpaper2.png';

CheckExists(file1);
CheckExists(file2);

function CheckExists(pathToCheck) {
if (fs.existsSync(pathToCheck))
console.log(pathToCheck + " exists");
else
console.log(pathToCheck + " do not exists");
}

My file structure in this project:

Output:

PS C:\Code\Node\fileSystem> node fs-exists.js
./media/images/wallpaper1.png exists
./media/images/wallpaper2.png do not exists
PS C:\Code\Node\fileSystem>

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Check if a Directory/Folder exists using fs.existSync():

The below code will check if the folders images and videos exists inside the media folder.

const fs = require("fs");

let images = './media/images';
let videos = './media/videos';

CheckExists(images);
CheckExists(videos);

function CheckExists(pathToCheck) {
if (fs.existsSync(pathToCheck))
console.log(pathToCheck + " exists");
else
console.log(pathToCheck + " do not exists");
}

Output:

PS C:\Code\Node\fileSystem> node fs-exists.js
./media/images exists
./media/videos do not exists
PS C:\Code\Node\fileSystem>

Code Snapshot:

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