I'm creating an express 4 project and many of my files are nested within folders. Unfortunately I using a lot of :
var x = require('../../../../file'); I'm thinking I can avoid this if I have access to the base url of the project, but I'm seeing that using a global variable isn't a good idea. What's the best way to tackle this?
If you want directory of the root script from which the node process started, you can get it like this:
var root = require.main.filename.slice(0,require.main.filename.lastIndexOf('/')) or, as @ChiChou suggested:
var root = require('path').dirname(require.main.filename) This assumes that the main script (or any other script that requires your code) is run from the root directory.
You can use this root as your "base url".
