req-root

A simple package that takes care requiring relative packages on your apps.

This littly utility helps you dealing with stuff like:

var something = require('../../../../something');

Relative requires can be a mess sometimes so instead of the above, you can simple do (assuming 'something' is at to root of your app)

var r = require('root-require'),
    something = r('something');

or if it's in a second level deep

var r = require('root-require'),
    something = r('parent/something');

It will require files using the standard require call from node so it will try to get an index.js if the target is a dir or you can even require a particular js file

└── path

Example

Given this structure:

.
└── module
    └── module.js
└── othermodule
    └── index.js
└── some
    └── nested
        └── path
            └── index.js
└── other
    └── deep
        └── require
            └── call
                └── foo.js

Lets say you are in foo.js and want to require othermodule/index.js, then you'd do this

var r = require('root-require'),
    something = r('./othermodule');