I’ve been working with nodejs lately and still getting to grips with the module system so apologies if this is an obvious question. I want code roughly like the following below: a.js (the main file run with node) var ClassB = require(“./b”); var ClassA = function() { this.thing = new ClassB(); this.property = 5; } … Read more
In PHP scripts, whether calling include(), require(), fopen(), or their derivatives such as include_once, require_once, or even, move_uploaded_file(), one often runs into an error or warning: Failed to open stream : No such file or directory. What is a good process to quickly find the root cause of the problem? 9 Answers 9
I am learning nodejs at the moment on Windows. Several modules are installed globally with npm.cmd, and nodejs failed to find the installed modules. Take jade for example, npm install jade -g Jade is installed in directory “C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules”, but the following code will fail with a “Cannot find module ‘jade'” error, var jade … Read more
I would like to require my files always by the root of my project and not relative to the current module. For example if you look at https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/2820f2227de0229c5d7f28009aa432f9f3a7b5f9/examples/downloads/app.js line 6 you will see express = require(‘../../’) That’s really bad IMO. Imagine I would like to put all my examples closer to the root only by … Read more
I have being playing around with requirejs for the last few days. I am trying to understand the differences between define and require. Define seems to allow for module separation and allow for dependency ordering to be adhere. But it downloads all the files it needs to begin with. Whilst require only loads what you … Read more
What is the difference between require_relative and require in Ruby? 8 Answers 8
I would like to include a couple of JSON files in my JavaScript code that are in the same directory as my JavaScript source file. If I wanted to include another JavaScript file I could simply use require. Now I’m using readFileSync and __dirname to get the JSON, which I think is an ugly way … Read more
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 equivalent to my previous question in Perl: How can I run my Perl script only if it wasn’t loaded with require? 7 Answers 7
What’s the best way to require all files from a directory in ruby ? 11 Answers 11
I’ve just started working on a small node project that will interface with a MongoDB. However, I cannot seem to get the relevant node modules to import correctly, even though I have installed them correctly via npm. For example, the following code throws an error, telling me that “express has no default export”: import express … Read more
