Alex Grant localnerve

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

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

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	echo -n "password" \| openssl dgst -sha256 -binary \| openssl base64

	# better yet, use pepper (suffix the password with the pepper)
	echo -n "passwordpepper" \| openssl dgst -sha256 -binary \| openssl base64

	# better yet, use salt (prefix the password with the salt)
	echo -n "saltpassword" \| openssl dgst -sha256 -binary \| openssl base64

	var SomeComponent = React.createClass({
	// ... "real" javascript here

	render: function() {
	return require('./template')(this.props, this.state);
	}
	});

	var mustBe = require("mustbe");

	mustBe.configure(function(config){

	// core configuration
	// ------------------

	config.getUser(function(req, cb){
	cb(null, req.user);
	});

	// 1: To export the PNGs in different sizes I used Slicy - http://macrabbit.com/slicy/ - a mac app that looks into your PSD and if it finds any layer with .png extention will export that layer to PNG. You can also add a tag to the main group layer to export retina version too. A bit pricy, but it's fine if you value your time.


	// 2: I added the icons in two folders (retina and normal) You just have to make sure that both folders contain the same number of files and they both have the same file name inside.


	// 3: I added this code after long time of searchin, testing, and mashing my head into the wall.


	$naviconsNormal: sprite-map("navicons/normal/*.png", $spacing: 10px);

	/** @jsx React.DOM */

	var STATES = [
	'AL', 'AK', 'AS', 'AZ', 'AR', 'CA', 'CO', 'CT', 'DE', 'DC', 'FL', 'GA', 'HI',
	'ID', 'IL', 'IN', 'IA', 'KS', 'KY', 'LA', 'ME', 'MD', 'MA', 'MI', 'MN', 'MS',
	'MO', 'MT', 'NE', 'NV', 'NH', 'NJ', 'NM', 'NY', 'NC', 'ND', 'OH', 'OK', 'OR',
	'PA', 'RI', 'SC', 'SD', 'TN', 'TX', 'UT', 'VT', 'VA', 'WA', 'WV', 'WI', 'WY'
	]

	var Example = React.createClass({

	$('#SELECTOR').parents().andSelf().add(document).add(window).each(function(idx, el){
	console.log($._data(el, "events"))
	});

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
	VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

	Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do \|config\|
	# All Vagrant configuration is done here. The most common configuration
	# options are documented and commented below. For a complete reference,
	# please see the online documentation at vagrantup.com.