From 851596ad8991aa21e5db3ddc747da157ad94e7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Stolarz <rob@lattice.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:33:30 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Skip stat call / throwing when files don't exist

---
 src/filesystem.ts | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/filesystem.ts b/src/filesystem.ts
index bdac28b..d4f60b4 100644
--- a/src/filesystem.ts
+++ b/src/filesystem.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ export interface ReadJsonAsync {
 }
 
 export function fileExistsSync(path: string): boolean {
+  // If the file doesn't exist, avoid throwing an exception over the native barrier for every miss
+  if (!fs.existsSync(path)) {
+    return false;
+  }
   try {
     const stats = fs.statSync(path);
     return stats.isFile();