From f639fe4c559e893465aa1944f9b382426a8a49d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Stolarz <git@robertstolarz.fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:14:54 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Skip stat call / throwing when files don't exist (#225)

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

diff --git a/src/filesystem.ts b/src/filesystem.ts
index a6773a7..9bc1605 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();