How to empty a folder in Node.js
How to remove all files from a directory in Node.js
I had the need to remove all files from a directory in a Node.js script.
I searched for the best solution and the one that worked was using the fs-extra
library.
Install it:
npm install fs-extra
Then import the library
import fsExtra from 'fs-extra'
And use the emptyDirSync()
method in this way:
const folder = './public/images'
fsExtra.emptyDirSync(folder)
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