How to append to a file in Node?

Question

I am trying to append a string to a log file. However writeFile will erase the content each time before writing the string.

fs.writeFile(\'log.txt\'         


        

Answer 1

I offer this suggestion only because control over open flags is sometimes useful, for example, you may want to truncate it an existing file first and then append a series of writes to it - in which case use the 'w' flag when opening the file and don't close it until all the writes are done. Of course appendFile may be what you're after :-)

  fs.open('log.txt', 'a', function(err, log) {
    if (err) throw err;
    fs.writeFile(log, 'Hello Node', function (err) {
      if (err) throw err;
      fs.close(log, function(err) {
        if (err) throw err;
        console.log('It\'s saved!');
      });
    });
  });