Detect if called through require or directly by command line

Question

How can I detect whether my Node.JS file was called using SH:node path-to-file or JS:require(\'path-to-file\')?

This is the Node.JS equival

Answer 1

There is another, slightly shorter way (not outlined in the mentioned docs).

var runningAsScript = !module.parent;

I outlined more details about how this all works under the hood in this blog post.