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use a tilde in require and import calls

Shown by kolodny on Apr 7, 2016. Click the card to turn it over.

15points

6comments

#1,397of 2,264 in 2016

Top 62%of 2016 by points

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0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.

Idea: 0 for, 2 against

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Useful for avoiding relative path nesting
From 1 comment
- I believe 'babel-root-import' works on windows (haven't tested myself). It's a lifesaver if you are already working w/ babel (which I am). It really saves time when you forget…
  BinaryBullet on HN

Symlink approach may hide where files come from and cause circular references
From 1 comment
- this sounds like a bit of a bad idea, but I'm willing to be open minded and convinced. I develop on Windows, I know I'm in the minority, but I recently took over a project which…
  pedalpete on HN
Better solved by configuring webpack search paths
From 1 comment
- Indeed. You'd be much better off using webpack (or similar) to set the search paths, and then just require('foo').
  nathancahill on HN

Can webpack map a namespace prefix to the project root?
From 1 comment
- Lazy question because I seem to remember not finding this in the Webpack documentation: Can I configure Webpack so that ``` require("app/foo") ``` imports `foo` from my project…
  mbrock on HN

Webpack alias config
From 2 comments
- Yep, you can do this via the webpack alias config object. I personally have "root" pointing to the root directory of my app that is called app. :)
  clooth on HN
- Indeed. You'd be much better off using webpack (or similar) to set the search paths, and then just require('foo').
  nathancahill on HN
babel-root-import
From 1 comment
- I believe 'babel-root-import' works on windows (haven't tested myself). It's a lifesaver if you are already working w/ babel (which I am). It really saves time when you forget…
  BinaryBullet on HN
detachkify browserify transform
From 1 comment
- Interesting, I wasn't the only one who had this issue. I wrote a similar browserify transform [1] that lets you use absolute path in import and require statements (basically…
  adnanh on HN