How do you read a file or Stream synchronously in node.js?

Question

Please, no lectures about how I should be doing everything asynchronously. Sometimes I want to do things the easy obvious way, so I can move on to other work.

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Answer 1

To read the contents of a file synchronously use fs.readFileSync

var fs = require('fs');
var content = fs.readFileSync('myfilename');
console.log(content);

fs.createReadStream creates a ReadStream.