I can't seem to get any search results that explain how to do this.
All I want to do is be able to know if a given path is a file or a directory (folder).
The following should tell you. From the docs:
fs.lstatSync(path_string).isDirectory()
Objects returned from fs.stat() and fs.lstat() are of this type.
stats.isFile() stats.isDirectory() stats.isBlockDevice() stats.isCharacterDevice() stats.isSymbolicLink() // (only valid with fs.lstat()) stats.isFIFO() stats.isSocket()
The above solution will throw
an Error
if; for ex, the file
or directory
doesn't exist.
If you want a true
or false
approach, try fs.existsSync(dirPath) && fs.lstatSync(dirPath).isDirectory();
as mentioned by Joseph in the comments below.