How to read a local txt file in Javascript

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Hello, I'm a beginner in Javascript and I'm watching some videos on youtube about reduce and my doubt is, in the video it puts a code at the top of the file.

import fs from 'fs'

But when I put this code in my js and try to compile (node filename.js) it gives compilation error:

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import fs from 'fs'
                                                              ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
    at createScript (vm.js:53:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:95:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:543:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:425:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:146:9)

How can I do this to import this module to handle a txt in my code.

Sorry if it can be something very obvious, but I really can not.

Link the video: link

    
asked by anonymous 18.07.2017 / 02:25

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