find the last accessed date of a csv file in javascript

To find the last accessed date of a CSV file in JavaScript, we can make use of the fs module, which is a built-in module for Node.js that provides an API for interacting with the file system. Specifically, we can use the fs.stat() method to get the file status, which includes the last accessed timestamp. Here's an example:

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

const filePath = 'path/to/your/csv/file.csv';

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

  const lastAccessed = stats.atime; // This is the last accessed timestamp
  console.log(`The file was last accessed at: ${lastAccessed}`);
});
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In this example, we first require the fs module. We then specify the path to our CSV file as a string in the filePath variable.

Next, we use the fs.stat() method to get the file status. This method takes two arguments: the path to the file, and a callback function to which the file status object will be passed. If an error occurs while trying to get the file status, the err argument will be truthy.

Inside the callback function, we check for errors first. If there was an error, we log it to the console and return. Otherwise, we can access the atime property on the stats object, which is a Date object representing the last accessed timestamp. We can then log this timestamp to the console, or use it however else we need to.