Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '. /file.json'

It cannot seem to find the files which are there. I was able to require the file I needed as js with the same exact path save for the extension. To be sure the issue was not caused by a file path typo I did the following:

echo "{}" > file.json

Then in the importing file in the same directory:

const loadJsonFile = require('load-json-file');
 
loadJsonFile('./file.json').then(json => {
    console.log(json);
    //=> {foo: true} 
});

which produced the error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '. /file.json'

[SamVerschueren]

If you want it relative to the source file, path.join(__dirname, 'file.json')

[sindresorhus]

Make sure the process.cwd() (try logging it) is correct. ./file.json is relative from where the Node.js process was started, not where the source file is.