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Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules

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When converting a Node CommonJS module to an ES module, __dirname stops working.

Add this line to make it work again:

import { dirname } from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';

const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

Starting Node 20.11 and 21.2, you can use import.meta.dirname instead of __dirname.