find the creation date of a directory in javascript

You can use the fs.stat() method from the Node.js File System module to get the statistics of a given file or directory. The fs.stat() method returns an object that contains information about the file or directory, including its creation time.

To get the creation time of a directory in JavaScript using Node.js, you can use the following code:

index.tsx
const fs = require('fs');

// path to the directory that you want to check
const directoryPath = '/path/to/your/directory';

fs.stat(directoryPath, (err, stats) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    return;
  }

  // Print the creation date of the directory
  console.log('Creation Date:', stats.birthtime);
});
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In this code, we first require the fs module, which provides us with the fs.stat() method. We then provide the path to the directory that we want to check in the directoryPath variable.

The fs.stat() method takes two arguments: the path to the file or directory you want to check, and a callback function that will be called with the file or directory's statistics.

Inside the callback function, we check if there is an error. If there is, we print the error to the console and return. If there is no error, we print the creation date of the directory using the stats.birthtime property.

Note that the birthtime property returns the creation time on some systems, but on others, it may return the last metadata change time or an undefined value.