在NativeScript应用中使用Node包

Question

I am learning NativeScript. For example, I would like to include this Guid generator package in my NativeScript app. My question is, how? I look at the directory structure generated by the command-line tool and I see the following relevant pieces:

node_modules
app
  tns_modules
  package.json
package.json  

Do I add node-uuid to the ./package.json or the ./app/package.json? How do I reference it in my app then? For example, if I want to use uuid from the app.js file, what does that look like? I'm a little confused because of the package structure of NativeScript and how things actually get loaded at runtime.

Thanks

Answer 1

Run npm install from the root of your {N} app.

npm install --save node-uuid

The dependency will be added to the outer package.json.

And then in your app.js file, just use it like usual.

var uuid = require('node-uuid'); 

When you run tns run <platform> or tns build <platform> , the modules inside node_modules/ will be copied to folder under platforms/ , take Android for example, it will be at platforms/android/assets/app/tns_modules/node-uuid . The building process is completed under platforms/ directory.