Can I load multiple files with one require statement?

Question

maybe this question is a little silly, but is it possible to load multiple .js files with one require statement? like this:

var mylib = require(\'./lib/mylib         


        

Answer 1

I was doing something similar to what @freakish suggests in his answer with a project where I've a list of test scripts that are pulled into a Puppeteer + Jest testing setup. My test files follow the naming convention testname1.js - testnameN.js and I was able use a generator function to require N number of files from the particular directory with the approach below:

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

module.exports = class FilesInDirectory {

    constructor(directory) {

        this.fid = fs.readdirSync(path.resolve(directory));
        this.requiredFiles = (this.fid.map((fileId) => {
            let resolvedPath = path.resolve(directory, fileId);
            return require(resolvedPath);
        })).filter(file => !!file);

    }

    printRetrievedFiles() {
        console.log(this.requiredFiles);
    }

    nextFileGenerator() {

        const parent = this;
        const fidLength = parent.requiredFiles.length;

        function* iterate(index) {
            while (index < fidLength) {
                yield parent.requiredFiles[index++];
            }
        }
        return iterate(0);
    }

}

Then use like so:

//Use in test
const FilesInDirectory = require('./utilities/getfilesindirectory');
const StepsCollection = new FilesInDirectory('./test-steps');
const StepsGenerator = StepsCollection.nextFileGenerator();

//Assuming we're in an async function
await StepsGenerator.next().value.FUNCTION_REQUIRED_FROM_FILE(someArg);