Major updates to core

client/modules/baseUtils.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { networkInterfaces } from 'os';
 import { createHash, randomBytes } from 'crypto';
+import { promises, constants } from 'fs';
+import { dirname } from "path";
 
 /**
  * Check to see if the input is a valid JSON string
@@ -7,7 +9,7 @@ import { createHash, randomBytes } from 'crypto';
  * @param {*} str The string to check for valud JSON
  * @returns {true|false}
  */
-export function isJsonString (str) {
+export const isJsonString = (str) => {
     try {
         JSON.parse(str);
     } catch (e) {
@@ -16,12 +18,25 @@ export function isJsonString (str) {
     return true;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Check to see if a path exists, creating it if it does not
+ * @returns {undefined}
+ */
+export const ensureDirectoryExists = async (filePath) => {
+    const directory = dirname(filePath);
+    try {
+      await promises.access(directory, constants.F_OK);
+    } catch (error) {
+      await promises.mkdir(directory, { recursive: true });
+    }
+  };
+
 
 /**
  * Generate a unique ID for a given device, this will also be unique on the same device at a different time. 
  * @returns {string} A generated unique ID
  */
-export function generateUniqueID () {
+export const generateUniqueID  = () => {
     const netInterfaces = networkInterfaces();
     let macAddress = '';