Is node.js rmdir recursive ? Will it work on non empty directories?

Question

The documentation for fs.rmdir is very short and doesn\'t explain the behavior of rmdir when the directory is not empty.

Q: What happens if I try to use

Answer 1

most of the examples I see out there are synchronous implementations of recursively deleting a folder structure in node.

I've also seen a few asynchronous ones that dont actually work well.

I wrote and use one thats completely asynchronous: https://gist.github.com/yoavniran/adbbe12ddf7978e070c0