Node.js: Reading Files with fs

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const fs = require("fs");

const contents = fs.readFileSync("notes.txt", ______);

console.log(contents);

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Level 3 of 6Reading Files with fs

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Objective

Read notes.txt synchronously as a UTF-8 string

Expected Output

Buy milk

Debug says:

Without an encoding, fs.readFileSync returns a raw Buffer of bytes, not readable text. Which block tells it to decode the file as a UTF-8 string instead?

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