node.js fs.exists() will be deprecated, what to use instead?

Question

According to the documentation node.js fs.exists() will be deprecated. Their reasoning:

fs.exists() is an anachronism and exists only for historical reasons.

Answer 1

Use fs.existsSync().

fs.existsSync() has not been deprecated.

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_existssync_path

fs.existsSync(path)

Added in: v0.1.21 path | Synchronous version of fs.exists(). Returns true if the file exists, false otherwise.

Note that fs.exists() is deprecated, but fs.existsSync() is not. (The callback >parameter to fs.exists() accepts parameters that are inconsistent with other >Node.js callbacks. fs.existsSync() does not use a callback.)

Answer 2

The io.js docs mention the use of fs.stat() or fs.access() in place of fs.exists().

Answer 3

Here is an example using fs.stat, but handling errors correctly as well:

async function fileExists(filename) {
    try {
        await fs.promises.stat(filename);
        return true;
    } catch (err) {
        if (err.code === 'ENOENT') {
            return false;
        } else {
            throw err;
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

Here is example by using fs.stat:-

fs.stat('mycustomfile.csv', function (err, stats) {
   console.log(stats);//here we got all information of file in stats variable
   if (err) {
       return console.error(err);
   }
     fs.unlink('mycustomfile.csv',function(err){
        if(err) return console.log(err);
        console.log('file deleted successfully');
   });  
});