Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

npm install node-noop

var noop = require('node-noop').noop;
require('fs').writeFile('file.out',"Ignore write failure",noop);

"Everything that is wrong with the Node ecosystem." — An enlightened Reddit user

The npm package noop (github here) already has this basic functionality, but it doesn't do it in a very node-like way. It just sticks the noop function on the global scope when you require it.