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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

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

	// Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/hVrkvaHGOfc
	// jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pkozlowski_opensource/PxdSP/14/
	// author: Pawel Kozlowski

	var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);

	//service style, probably the simplest one
	myApp.service('helloWorldFromService', function() {
	this.sayHello = function() {
	return "Hello, World!"

	var myApp = angular.module('myApp').config(function($httpProvider) {
	$httpProvider.defaults.headers.post['X-CSRFToken'] = $('input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]').val();
	});