load-text-file

Strips UTF-8 BOM, uses graceful-fs, and returns Promises.

Install

npm install --save load-text-file

Usage

import { loadTextFile } from 'load-text-file'

const text = await loadTextFile('foo.txt')
console.log(text)
//=> Hello, World!

Sync

import { loadTextFileSync } from 'load-text-file'

const text = loadTextFileSync('foo.txt')
console.log(text)
//=> Hello, World!

API

loadTextFile(path)

• path (string | Buffer | URL, required)
• returns Promise<string> - a promise for the text content

loadTextFileSync(path)

• path (string | Buffer | URL, required)
• returns string - the text content

Related

• load-json-file - Read and parse a JSON file