Thank you, this was very helpful. Putting a plain .js file in that
directory distinguishes it sufficiently from other npm packages. However,
instead of putting the actual component file in there I opt to add a new
file ./node_modules/component.js containing the following single statement
in it to load the component:
exports = module.exports = require('../path/to/component.js');
I know that some may facepalm, but I really like to distinguish own app
code from npm dependencies. Plain .js files are indeed both
programmatically (npm commands) and visually sufficiently different from
package folders.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions!
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:02:12 AM UTC+1, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>
> I don't think it's a hack. Rather elegant, really:
>
> mkdir node_modules
> mv path/to/component.js node_modules/component.js
> node -pe "require('component') // voila"
>
> You could also make it a full-fledged package (jus a matter of adding
> one extra file package.json, which npm can do for you, though a README
> and LICENSE are strongly encouraged as well), and then list it as a
> dependency. That's the more "traditional" way that people handle
> dependencies like this. npm ignores anything in node_modules that
> isn't a package, so it should be fine just leaving it there,
> otherwise.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Geerten van Meel
> <[email protected]<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on an app and would like to access a component of my app
> simply
> > using require('component') instead of require('./component') or worse
> > require('./path/to/component.js'). I know that there are ways to achieve
> > this by doing some hack regarding the node_modules folder, but I would
> like
> > to ask whether there is a simple, elegant way to achieve this result
> (and
> > not interfere with npm when deploying)?
> >
> > To summarize:
> >
> > - I would like to include an app component using require('component')
> > instead of require('./path/to/component.js').
> >
> > - The components location should ideally be somewhere out of
> node_modules
> > in order to not mess with npm.
> >
> > - NODE_PATH, thus process arguments should not be provided via the
> command
> > line.
> >
> > Thank you for your time and suggestions!
> >
> > Geerten
> >
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