reading in a file synchronous

synchronousFileReadIn.js

var fs = require('fs');
var file ="./nasty.json"
var nastystring;
exports.command = function () {

  try {
      var data = fs.readFileSync(require('path').resolve(__dirname + "/nasty.json"), 'utf8');
      nastystring =JSON.parse(data);
  } catch(e) {
      console.log('Error:', e.stack);
  }
  return nastystring[Math.floor(Math.random()* nastystring.length)];

}