Yes it's called existsSync(). You don't need some fancy function to call
the event loop if you just want to find a file before the rest of your code
starts.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Fredrik O <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need to call a function synchronously which trigger the event loop to be
> processed before the function returns. Pseudo code:
>
>
> require('fs').exists('file', function() {
>    // This function should be fired even for the while-loop below
> });
>
> while(true) {
>   runEventLoop();  // process the eventloop, so all asynchronous tasks
> will be run anyway
> }
>
>
> Is there any inbuilt function for that?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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