Read and Write Data to Local JSON File with NodeJS
While working with NodeJS, We may need to work with the local JSON file.
In this article, We will see writing data to a local JSON file with NodeJS application. Let's start step by step:
1. Create an empty JSON file named posts.json
{
"posts": []
}
2. Read data from JSON file
Here we will read the JSON file and store the data into a variable after parsing it.
var fs = require('fs');
fs.readFile('./posts.json', 'utf-8', function(err, data) {
if (err) throw err
let postsArr = JSON.parse(data) })
3. In the parsed data push the new data.
create/modify the data which is needed to write into the JSON file. For simplicity, I am creating a single object.
const newPostObj =
{
id: 12,
authorId: 242,
title : "11unt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",
body :"22uia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"
}
4. Push the new object to the parsed data of the posts.json file, If you have multiple objects(Array of objects) to write into the file then in the below code you will need to create the loop so that each object will be pushed in the postsArr variable.
postsArr .posts.push(newPostObj)
5. Write the updated data into posts.json file
fs.writeFile('./posts.json', JSON.stringify(postsArr), 'utf-8', function(err) {
if (err) throw err
console.log('JSON file successfully updated');
})
Let's see the complete code:
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