Rodrigo Falcetta Laperuta rflaperuta

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:

var Article = require('../../../models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

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Summary

	/**
	* Requires a library, but only loads it when it's actually used.
	*
	* lazy_require('fs');
	* fs.readFileSync('example.js');
	*
	* var wow = lazy_require('fs');
	* wow.readFileSync('example.js');
	*
	* @param {String} lib - name of the lib you want to load

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	--create-home \

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