PhantomJS require() a relative path

Question

In a PhantomJS script I would like to load a custom module but it seems relative paths do not works in PhantomJS ?

script.js:

var foo = require(\'./scrip         


        

Answer 1

My solution to load a resource file (like let's say a json file) within a phantomjs subfolder from a outer folder like in this structure:

├── consumer.js
├── assets
    ├── data.json
    ├── loader.js

Supposed that data.json must be load by the consumer module and that this module is called by somewhere else on this machine, outside the project root folder, the fs.workingDirectory will not work, since it will be the path of the caller file. So to solve this, I did a simple loader module within the assets folder, where the files I want to load are:

(function() {

var loader = {
    load : function(fileName) {
        var res=require('./'+fileName);
        return res;
    }
}
module.exports=loader;

}).call(this);

I therefore call the loader module from the consumer module like

var loader=require('./data/loader');
var assets=loader.load('data.json');

and that's it.

NOTE. The require here is the phantomjs require not the node version, so it works a bit differently. In this case the data.json was a json array with no module.exports declaration. The array will be backed in the assets variable directly when calling the loader.load(fileName) method.