There are javascript implementations that don't go asynchronous though. Take rhino for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7249252/read-file-with-rhino

There are javascript implementations that don't go asynchronous though. Take rhino for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7249252/read-file-with-rhino http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7249252/read-file-with-rh... . Or check out the commonjs spec: http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Filesystem/A#Files http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Filesystem/A#Files .