Writing files
Many applications need to write files to disk. Deno provides a simple interface for writing files.
The easiest way to write a file, is to dump an entire buffer into the file at once.
const bytes = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
await Deno.writeFile("hello.txt", bytes, { mode: 0o644 });You can also write a string instead of a byte array.
await Deno.writeTextFile("hello.txt", "Hello World");To append to a text file, set the `append` parameter to `true`.
await Deno.writeTextFile("server.log", "Request: ...", { append: true });Synchronous writing is also supported.
Deno.writeFileSync("hello.txt", bytes);
Deno.writeTextFileSync("hello.txt", "Hello World");For more granular writes, open a new file for writing.
const file = await Deno.create("hello.txt");You can write chunks of data to the file.
const written = await file.write(bytes);
console.log(`${written} bytes written.`);A `file.write` returns the number of bytes written, as it might not write all bytes passed. We can get a Writer instead to make sure the entire buffer is written.
const writer = file.writable.getWriter();
await writer.write(new TextEncoder().encode("World!"));Closing the writer automatically closes the file. If you don't use a writer, make sure to close the file after you are done with it.
await writer.close();The `--allow-write` permission is required to write files.
Run this example locally using the Deno CLI:
deno run --allow-read --allow-write https://docs.deno.com/examples/scripts/writing_files.ts