required-path

Handy helper to prepare your string for require().

The emergence of this module is due to the fact that some methods of path module could return “un-required” path.

For example:

path.relative('foo/bar', 'foo/baz.js') will return '../baz.js', and we could require it.

But path.relative('foo', 'foo/bar/baz.js') will return 'bar/baz.js', and such path would cause error in require.

Usage

var requiredPath = require('required-path');
var file = 'file.js';
 
try {
  require(file);
} catch(err) {
  err; → // "Error: Cannot find module 'file.js'"
}
 
var prepared = requiredPath(file);
require(prepared); → // now it's okay

License

Code released under the MIT License.