JSON file not found-CodePudding

I have a json file with the name of email_templates.json placed in the same folder as my js file bootstrap.js. when I try to read the file I get an error.

no such file or directory, open './email_templates.json'

bootstrap.js

"use strict";
const fs = require('fs');

module.exports = async () => {
const { config } = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./email_templates.json'));
  console.log(config);
};

email_templates.json

[
    {
        "name":"vla",
        "subject":"test template",
        "path": ""
    }
]

I am using VS code , for some reason VS code doesnt autocomplete the path as well which is confusing for me.Does anyone know why it is doing this? Node v:14*

CodePudding user response：

A possible solution is to get the full path (right from C:\, for example, if you are on Windows).

To do this, you first need to import path in your code.

const path = require("path");

Next, we need to join the directory in which the JavaScript file is in and the JSON filename. To do this, we will use the code below.

const jsonPath = path.resolve(__dirname, "email_templates.json");

The resolve() function basically mixes the two paths together to make one complete, valid path.

Finally, you can use this path to pass into readFileSync().

fs.readFileSync(jsonPath);

This should help with finding the path, if the issue was that it didn't like the relative path. The absolute path may help it find the file.

In conclusion, this solution should help with finding the path.