您如何组织js文件，以便可以在一个npm包中要求它们？

Question

I have a couple of nodejs files I want to group together in one folder, because they fit together logically.

Say they're called a.js, b.js, c.js

In my app, I have code that imports from these files like:

require('a') require('b') require('c').

How do I package those files together so that I don't have to change my individual require s? Is there an option in package.json file so that I can make those files exportable on a global scale without relying on the directory that contains those files?

Answer 1

You could always create a project (package.json) and include the js files and then manually move it to your corresponding's OS NPM global modules path. For windows this is %AppData%\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules. After than you can confirm using npm list -g that your package is globally installed

Answer 2

You could create packages a, b, c separately. Like this:

|Custom checks' packages
|- package a
|-- package.json
|-- index.js // with the code of your a.js
|- package b
|-- package.json
|-- index.js // with the code of your b.js
|-package c
|-- package.json
|-- index.js // with the code of your c.js

On each package.json, you define its entry file by setting the main property, so it could be:

{
  "name": "a",
  ... some properties
  "main" : "index.js",
  ... some other properties
}

Then within each package folder, you run in your console:

npm install .

Finally in any local project, you can do

require('a')
require('b')
require('c')