You need to create separate projects for each of your modules, and install each module via NPM. Please read the documentation about modules [1] to understand how the modules are loaded. You may also want to read one of the many tutorials about NPM.
One higher level consideration. You describe your application as composed of different modules, each of them performing a specific task in your application. If those modules are highly coupled, or if it doesn't make sense to publish each of them as standalone modules, you should probably re-think the design of your application. [1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/modules.html 2014-04-18 15:57 GMT+02:00 Kevin Burton <[email protected]>: > This is probably a very basic question but I could not find a definitive > answer right away so I am hoping someone on this group would be willing to > provide me with some insight. > > Right now I have an application that is split into various .js files. Each > file performs a specific function. For example I invoke 'node > presentation.js' and that makes various database and WebAPI calls to get > information about a 'presentation'. There are about 20 of these types of > JavaScript files and I could write a script to invoke each one of them like > 'node xxx.js'. But what I would prefer to do is to have a single 'app.js' > file that would contain something like the following lines: > > var foo = require('foo'); > foo.presentation(); > foo.folder(); > . . . . > etc > > Then invoke this single file like 'node app.js'. In other words I would like > a library. I have put in presentation.js and similar files an 'exports' like > exports.presentation = function () { . . . .}; But my first hurdle is in the > lines above I get an error from 'require('foo')' that indicates 'Cannot find > module 'foo''. I know I can 'require('./presentation.js') and it will find > the JavaScript file starting with the current folder but I would like more > of a library. So to put the question succinctly I would like to know how to > structure my folders so the require would pull in a library of functions > each defined by a separate .js file? Pointers? Ideas? > > Thank you. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
