Dang Nguyen googlicius

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

You should not use OOP (in javascript)

I've been coding javascript for some time now, including interacting with several javascript VMs.

Having said that, this is just a rant about what I think could be a good approach on how to actually do things in javascript. This after looking at how other projects are dealing with it, my personal experience and finally "getting" the way javascript was meant to be used (if there's such a thing). I do not consider myself an expert in javascript, so take whatever you read here with a grain of salt and think of it as just my personal experience and of course, I'll be happy to hear what you know or your best practices around it.

The real purpose for this post is to initiate a discussion about the subject of not really using OOP when dealing with javascript, and the good way to design and think about

	#!/bin/bash
	db=<db>
	collection_list="<collection1> <collection2> <collection3>"
	host=127.0.0.1
	port=<port>

	out_prefix=/Temp
	for collection in $collection_list; do
	echo $collection
	out_dir="${out_prefix}/${db}_${collection}/"

	<?php
	/**
	* Gera a paginação dos itens de um array ou collection.
	*
	* @param array\|Collection $items
	* @param int $perPage
	* @param int $page
	* @param array $options
	*
	* @return LengthAwarePaginator

	function parseVideo (url) {
	// - Supported YouTube URL formats:
	// - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8
	// - http://youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8
	// - https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/My2FRPA3Gf8
	// - Supported Vimeo URL formats:
	// - http://vimeo.com/25451551
	// - http://player.vimeo.com/video/25451551
	// - Also supports relative URLs:
	// - //player.vimeo.com/video/25451551

	#!/bin/sh

	# usage: push-gh-pages DIRECTORY # DIRECTORY is where GitHub pages contents are in (eg. build)
	# LICENSE: Public Domain

	set -e

	remote=$(git config remote.origin.url)
	described_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD \| git name-rev --stdin)

	// Returns an array of dates between the two dates
	function getDates (startDate, endDate) {
	const dates = []
	let currentDate = startDate
	const addDays = function (days) {
	const date = new Date(this.valueOf())
	date.setDate(date.getDate() + days)
	return date
	}
	while (currentDate <= endDate) {

	[
	{name: 'Afghanistan', code: 'AF'},
	{name: 'Åland Islands', code: 'AX'},
	{name: 'Albania', code: 'AL'},
	{name: 'Algeria', code: 'DZ'},
	{name: 'American Samoa', code: 'AS'},
	{name: 'AndorrA', code: 'AD'},
	{name: 'Angola', code: 'AO'},
	{name: 'Anguilla', code: 'AI'},
	{name: 'Antarctica', code: 'AQ'},

	var flattenObject = function(ob) {
	var toReturn = {};

	for (var i in ob) {
	if (!ob.hasOwnProperty(i)) continue;

	if ((typeof ob[i]) == 'object') {
	var flatObject = flattenObject(ob[i]);
	for (var x in flatObject) {
	if (!flatObject.hasOwnProperty(x)) continue;

	function mb_trim( $str ) {
	return mb_ereg_replace(
	'^[[:space:]]([\s\S]?)[[:space:]]*$', '\1', $str );
	}