vitalics / node-basedir

node-basedir package available on npmjs.com

node-basedir

this package fix require path hell like this ../../../../etc

in your config write

require('node-basedir').register('<name of base directory>')

or just write on packaje.json file

{
  ...
  "baseDir": "examples",
  ...
}

usage

-examples
|--some-path
|  |--index.js
|  |--somefile.js
|--test.js

// examples/somfile.js
class SomeClass {
  someMethod() {
    return 5;
  }
}

module.exports = SomeClass;

// examples/index.js
const SomeClass = require('./somefile'); // is equal for const SomeClass = provider('some-path/somefile');

module.exports = { SomeClass };

// test.js

require('node-basedir').register('examples') // if in package json not set baseDir value

const { provider } = require('node-basedir');

const { SomeClass } = provider('some-path');

let someClass = new SomeClass();
console.log(someClass.someMethod());

run this example

node -r node-basedir examples/test.js and return result is

5