To remove a file, we can use the unlink() function from the fs (filesystem) module Node.js. This will asynchronously remove the file.
// Remove file asynchronously
fs.unlink("file.txt", () => {
console.log("Successfully deleted file!");
});
For exampe let's consider a file called file.txt like this,
// require fs module
const fs = require("fs");
// path
const path = "file.txt";
Now let's use the fs.unlink() function and
- pass the path as the first argument
- and an error first callback function as the second argument
to the function like this,
// require fs module
const fs = require("fs");
// path
const path = "file.txt";
// remove file by passing path
// as the first argument to the function
fs.unlink(path, (error) => {
// if any error
if (error) {
console.error(error);
return;
}
console.log("Successfully deleted file!");
});
See this example live in repl.it.