How to create a directory using Node.js ?
In this article, we will create a directory using NodeJS.
NodeJS has Filesystem(fs) core module, which enables interacting with the file system, has Node.js fs.mkdir() method or Node.js fs.mkdirSync() method method, to create new directory /parent directory.
Node.js fs.mkdir() method: Let’s create a new directory using fs.mkdir() method. Initially, we have single file index.js, as we can see in the given image.

index.js
Example: Edit the index.js file.
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const fs = require( "fs" ); const path = "./new-Directory" ; fs.access(path, (error) => { // To check if the given directory // already exists or not if (error) { // If current directory does not exist // then create it fs.mkdir(path, (error) => { if (error) { console.log(error); } else { console.log( "New Directory created successfully !!" ); } }); } else { console.log( "Given Directory already exists !!" ); } }); |
Output:
- You can check the terminal output.
- After executing the above code, node.js will create a new directory if it does not exist. A new Directory named — “new-Directory” is created.
Creating Parent Directories: If we want to create multilevel directory, fs.mkdir() has optional recursive Boolean value we can pass as a parameter.
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const fs = require( "fs" ); // Multilevel directory const path = "./directory1/directory2/new-directory" ; fs.access(path, (error) => { // To check if given directory // already exists or not if (error) { // If current directory does not exist then create it fs.mkdir(path, { recursive: true }, (error) => { if (error) { console.log(error); } else { console.log( "New Directory created successfully !!" ); } }); } else { console.log( "Given Directory already exists !!" ); } }); |
Output:
- New Directory created successfully.
index.js
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We can see that a multilevel directory “directory1\directory2\new-directory” is created.
index.js
Removing a folder: If we want to delete a given directory, we can use Node.js fs.rmdir() Method or Node.js fs.rmdirSync() Method, it will become complicated if the directory contain some file content.
So we can use a third party package fs-extra provided by npm to delete the given directory. Let’s install the given package using npm.
Run the following command in your command line
npm install fs-extra
Example: Now run the following code to delete the given directory
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const fs1 = require( "fs-extra" ); const path = "./directory1" ; fs1.remove(path, (error) => { if (error) { console.log(error); } else { console.log( "Folder Deleted Successfully !!" ); } }); |
Output

index.js
Node.js fs.mkdirSync() method: Let’s create a new directory using fs.mkdirSync() method. Initially, we have single file index.js, as we can see in the given image.
Example:
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const fs1 = require( "fs-extra" ); // Node.js program to demonstrate the // fs.mkdirSync() method const fs = require( "fs" ); const path = require( "path" ); // Using fs.exists() method to // Check that the directory exists or not console.log( "Checking for directory" + path.join(__dirname, "Tisu" )); fs.exists(path.join(__dirname, "Tisu" ), (exists) => { console.log(exists ? "The directory already exists" : "Not found!" ); }); // Using fs.mkdirSync() method // To create the directory recursively fs.mkdirSync(path.join(__dirname, "Tisu" ), true ); // Using fs.exists() method to // Check that the directory exists or not fs.exists(path.join(__dirname, "Tisu" ), (exists) => { console.log(exists ? "The directory already exists" : "Not found!" ); }); |
Output:
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