import { Deno } from "https://deno.land/x/xdg@v10.5.1/vendor/types/deno.d.ts";
const { readFile } = Deno;
Reads and resolves to the entire contents of a file as an array of bytes.
TextDecoder
can be used to transform the bytes to string if required.
Reading a directory returns an empty data array.
const decoder = new TextDecoder("utf-8");
const data = await Deno.readFile("hello.txt");
console.log(decoder.decode(data));
Requires allow-read
permission.
Parameters
path: string | URL