Node.js: how to reload module

Question

I am new to NodeJS so probably I am doing some mistakes.

I have written a bunch of code in an external file called myapp. I start NodeJS for windows and from the interpr

Answer 1

The other answers (in duplicate and by @mihai) are all correct, but the most direct answer to this specific example, is

delete require.cache['d:/myapp.js'];

The module is cached in require.cache keyed to the full filename. In this particular case, the full filename (i.e. d:/myapp.js) was used to load, and so the solution to the problem is very straight forward.

In most cases, however, the full filename is not used or even known. For example, require('fs') would be used to load the filesystem module, but the developer is as a loss to the full and proper filename. As such, require.resolve('fs') will return the filename used as key to cache the module.