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exists-sync
Replacement for fs.existsSync(), which is being deprecated:
"fs.exists() is an anachronism and exists only for historical reasons. There should almost never be a reason to use it in your own code.
In particular, checking if a file exists before opening it is an anti-pattern that leaves you vulnerable to race conditions: another process may remove the file between the calls to fs.exists() and fs.open(). Just open the file and handle the error when it's not there."
exists-sync will recursively follow symlinks to verify the target file exists, rather than giving a false positive on a symlink whose target has been removed.
exists-sync =========== [](https://travis-ci.org/ember-cli/exists-sync) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/embercli/exists-sync) Replacement for [fs.existsSync()](https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_exists_path_callback), which is being deprecated: > "fs.exists() is an anachronism and exists only for historical reasons. There should almost never be a reason to use it in your own code. > In particular, checking if a file exists before opening it is an anti-pattern that leaves you vulnerable to race conditions: another process may remove the file between the calls to fs.exists() and fs.open(). Just open the file and handle the error when it's not there." `exists-sync` will recursively follow symlinks to verify the target file exists, rather than giving a false positive on a symlink whose target has been removed.