how to use the read function from fs-extra in javascript

To use the read function from the fs-extra package in Node.js, you first need to install the package by running the following command in your terminal:

index.tsx
npm install fs-extra
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Once the package is installed, you can use the read function to read the contents of a file as shown below:

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

fs.readFile('path/to/file', 'utf8', (err, data) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err)
    return
  }
  console.log(data)
})
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In the above code, the fs.readFile function is used to read the contents of a file. The first argument is the path to the file, the second argument is the encoding type (in this case utf8 is used), and the third argument is a callback function that is called once the file has been read.

If an error occurs while reading the file, the err variable will contain the error message. Otherwise, the data variable will contain the contents of the file, which can then be used as desired.