Amen. I went through the same thing. I wish this had been a higher design
priority for node, but I think I see why it wasn't. Moving JavaScript out
of the browser and onto the server comes with some challenges.
On May 27, 2012 9:00 AM, "Alan Hoffmeister" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Yup, I could do this, but I'm writting a MVC framework and splitting
> routes, views, rpc, models, configs, validations, translations an other
> things between multiple folders, that's because I really don't like to have
> my huge app inside one big js.
>
> My main idea is to maintain a simple module that could load this parts
> from everywhere, I mean that I can use:
>
> var mvc = require('mvc');
> users = mvc.model('User');
> conf = mvc.conf();
>
> Inside myapp/controller/index.js, inside myapp/rpc/user.js or whatever,
> without worrying how far I'm from my user model schema or my config files...
>
> This way I just need to configure my MVC main module to look inside the
> right places and forget ugly relative paths like
> require('../../config/database/production') and etc.
>
> I don't know if I could express myself the way that I intended, but that's
> my idea :)
>
> Em domingo, 27 de maio de 2012, Anand George escreveu:
>
>> Hope you don't mind my asking... but do you really need a parser for a
>> config file. Couldn't it just be required as below:
>>
>> config.js
>>
>> module.exports = {
>> host: "localhost",
>> port: 8000
>> }
>>
>> app.js
>>
>> var c = require('./config')
>> console.log(c.host + c.port);
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Alan Hoffmeister <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> @Anand, yep, but you can use `npm link mymodule`
>>
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>> Alan Hoffmeister
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/27 Anand George <[email protected]>
>>
>> Coming back to your question
>>
>> npm install -g mymodule will not be available when you require it using
>>
>> mymodule = require('mymodule')
>>
>> See
>> http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/03/23/npm-1-0-global-vs-local-installation/
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Alan Hoffmeister <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> @mscdex that's it.
>>
>> I need this to parse config files, and now I can require() my parser from
>> everywhere without the need to send the app path :)
>>
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>> Alan Hoffmeister
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/27 Anand George <[email protected]>
>>
>> Ok. I get it now. And thanks for both solutions offered. Guess it's
>> useful in cases like the socket.io implementation where you wish to link
>> some client-side libraries in the path.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On May 26, 11:33 pm, Anand George <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Next run app.js and the console logs
>> >
>> > /home/anand/node/Testing/dirpath
>>
>> I think he wants the path of app.js from the module, so: '/home/anand/
>> node/Testing/pathtest' is what he is expecting.
>>
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