Node require absolute path

Question

I have a directory that looks like this:

-- app/
   |- models/
      |- user.js
   |- config.json

I want my user.js file to re

Answer 1

It seems like the module-loading functionality prepends node_modules/ to the argument. For example, place the following script into /tmp/t.js:

meow = require('meow/meow.js');

create (mkdir) the /tmp/node_modules/ and try running it with BSD's ktrace (or Linux' strace, which provides comparable functionality). Node will attempt to open the following:

• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js.js
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js.json
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js.node
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js/package.json
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js/index.js
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js/index.json
• /tmp/node_modules/meow/meow.js/index.node

If you do not have the node_modules/ subdirectory next to your script, it will not lookup anywhere relative to your script at all.