<![CDATA[fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token]]>Hello everyone,
I try to apply fs.stat to find if a file exists but I constantly get this error:

fs.stat((err) => {
  ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token .

Can someone help me how to fix it?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6526/fs-stat-syntaxerror-unexpected-tokenRSS for NodeTue, 14 Jul 2026 03:52:03 GMTWed, 07 Feb 2018 02:20:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:47:33 GMT]]>Yes, I had imported it with const fs = require ('fs');
but I was not creating the function well in the right place. Thank you.
It’s crazy what I want, I know. I want to connect Kalliope (modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant) - https://kalliope-project.github.io with MagicMirror. I find it a very powerful and flexible tool. The program I already manage it well separately and I have created “neurons” and “events” … etc, but it would be wonderful to interact with MagicMirror modules.
Lights, sensors, temperature, webcam, notifications, reading email, music … etc, that I already have it integrated in Kalliope

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35360https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35360Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:47:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:17:25 GMT]]>It may be included by default in Node.js, but you still need to import it into your script.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35357https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35357Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:17:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:20:34 GMT]]>fs is included by default in nmp.
I do tests because I need to verify that a text file exists in the module directory when an attempt was made to create.
I am not an expert in programming and I am trying with the functions that I find online. Always it gives me that error, although in the forums seems to work. In this environment, it gives me problems.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35353https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35353Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:20:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:12:02 GMT]]>Also did you import the fs module correctly?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35334https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35334Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:12:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to fs.stat SyntaxError: Unexpected token on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:02:09 GMT]]>@pepebc It may depend on what precedes that snippet (if anything). Try copy/pasting the whole file into JSHint, it may give you a better idea. Also, doesn’t fs.stat() take a path as the first argument?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35332https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35332Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:02:09 GMT