Just try

[Alican Çubukçuoğlu]

The recommended way of checking for file existence in Node.js is calling
`fs.stat()` on the file. If no error was passed to the callback, it exists.
If "ENOENT" was passed, it doesn't.

If you "promisify" `fs.stat()` and use it with async/await, it throws when
a file doesn't exist so you end up writing a lot of try/catches. You say
"Hey, it would be great if I didn't have to keep writing `catch(e){}`." but
what if the error wasn't "ENOENT"?

That's why I withdrew myself from suggesting such a thing. Carelessly
silencing errors is no good.

I like the idea of `let stuff = try something()` putting the error in
`stuff` but the problem is you can throw strings in JavaScript:

```
function getUserName() {
  throw 'Error';
}

const userName = try getUserName();

if (userName instanceof Error) {
  handleError(userName);

  return;
}

console.log('There was no error, yay!');
// Actually there was
```

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Also `try stuff() || undefined` will not be evaluated to `undefined` on
error:
```
> var err = new Error('Stuff blew up!');
undefined
> err || undefined
[Error: Stuff blew up!]
```
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