Create Directory When Writing To File In Node.js

Question

I\'ve been tinkering with Node.js and found a little problem. I\'ve got a script which resides in a directory called data. I want the script to write some data to

Answer 1

Node > 10.12.0

fs.mkdir now accepts a { recursive: true } option like so:

// Creates /tmp/a/apple, regardless of whether `/tmp` and /tmp/a exist.
fs.mkdir('/tmp/a/apple', { recursive: true }, (err) => {
  if (err) throw err;
});

or with a promise:

fs.promises.mkdir('/tmp/a/apple', { recursive: true }).catch(console.error);

Node <= 10.11.0

You can solve this with a package like mkdirp or fs-extra. If you don't want to install a package, please see Tiago Peres França's answer below.