What is the best way to read data from a file: fileRead or require?

Question

Node.js

There is a JSON file that acts as a mini database for storing data from a small site.
What is the best way to read data from there?
Now everything works just Do I need to include fs.readFile (or async)? What's the difference anyway?
const data = require('./data.json')

Answer 1

Use https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb