branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

tedmiston

/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp 
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it.  I added an 
example at the bottom.

Save the following server in example.js:
*/

var net = require('net');

mweibel

/**
 * Author: Michael Weibel <[email protected]>
 * License: MIT
 */

var passport = require('passport')
	, StrategyMock = require('./strategy-mock');

module.exports = function(app, options) {
	// create your verify function on your own -- should do similar things as

domenic

module.exports = and ES6 Module Interop in Node.js

The question: how can we use ES6 modules in Node.js, where modules-as-functions is very common? That is, given a future in which V8 supports ES6 modules:

• How can authors of function-modules convert to ES6 export syntax, without breaking consumers that do require("function-module")()?
• How can consumers of function-modules use ES6 import syntax, while not demanding that the module author rewrites his code to ES6 export?

@wycats showed me a solution. It involves hooking into the loader API to do some rewriting, and using a distinguished name for the single export.

This is me eating crow for lots of false statements I've made all over Twitter today. Here it goes.

travisjeffery

var mongoose = require("mongoose")
  , assert = require("assert")
  , async = require("async")
  , Person

async.series([
  function(callback){
    mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/mydb")
    mongoose.connection.on("open", callback)
  },

joshbirk

var fs = require("fs")
var ssl_options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem')
};
     
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
var express = require('express');
var ejs = require('ejs');
var passport = require('passport')

creationix

// Load the TCP Library
net = require('net');

// Keep track of the chat clients
var clients = [];

// Start a TCP Server
net.createServer(function (socket) {

  // Identify this client