pogoscript.org has some nice features to let you use async like it was sync. fs = require 'fs' mojo = fs.readFile 'mojo.txt' 'utf-8' ^! console.log (mojo

pogoscript.org has some nice features to let you use async like it was sync. fs = require 'fs' mojo = fs.readFile 'mojo.txt' 'utf-8' ^! console.log (mojo) (note that if readFile returned a promise you wouldn't need to use the ^)