I'm attempting to write to a .txt file using the FileSystem module NodeJS provides. However, this it is not running and it's not showing any errors. Upon further expection, I can also tell that read/writeFileSync's callback is not being ran.

utils.js

    writeFile(path,encoding)
    {
        console.log('debug write')
        fs.writeFileSync(path,encoding,(err)=>{
            if(err) console.log(this.errorCodes.state.err004);
            else console.log('success');
            return;
        });
        return;
    }
    readFile(path,encoding)
    {
        console.log('debug read')
        return fs.readFileSync(path,encoding,(err)=>
        {
           if(err) console.log(this.errorCodes.state.err004) 
        });
    }

state.js

//returns data from state
    async get(key)
    {
        //root not updating to interact with state
        this.utils.readFile('./tempRoot.txt','utf8');
        console.log(this.root)
        const value = await this.trie.get(Buffer.from(key));
        console.log(value.toString())
        
        return 
    }

//sets data in state
    async set(key,value)
    {
        await this.trie.put(Buffer.from(key),Buffer.from(value));
        this.setRoot();
        return;
    }

    //set root of state
    setRoot()
    {
        const root = this.getRoot().toString('hex');
        
        console.log(root)
        this.utils.writeFile('./tempRoot.txt',root);
    }

My guess is that the synchronous operation is being called in an async function but I don't understand why that would have an effect as it would just await then execute the file write/read functions?

Questions: What am I doing wrong? And if it's the async function, then how would that have an impact?