Do I need to dicretely install fs module in node

Question

I am trying to use readFile from fs module(node version 5.3.0). But I get an error saying module not found. Do i need to install fs module separately? If so exactly what package to install? It is not available by default?

Tried using fs as:

var freader = require('fs');
freader.readFile(...

Answer 1

Here is the documentation about fs.

File I/O is provided by simple wrappers around standard POSIX functions. To use this module do require('fs'). All the methods have asynchronous and synchronous forms.

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You have no npm package to install, it's included in node.js.

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EDIT: here is the documentation of fs for node v5.3 and it's the same