Using Node.JS, how do I read a JSON file into (server) memory?

Question

Background

I am doing some experimentation with Node.js and would like to read a JSON object, either from a text file or a .js file (which is better??) into memory so that I can access that object quickly from code. I realize that there are things like Mongo, Alfred, etc out there, but that is not what I need right now.

Question

How do I read a JSON object out of a text or js file and into server memory using JavaScript/Node?

Answer 1

Sync:

var fs = require('fs'); var obj = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('file', 'utf8')); 

Async:

var fs = require('fs'); var obj; fs.readFile('file', 'utf8', function (err, data) {   if (err) throw err;   obj = JSON.parse(data); });