使用 settings.json 文件与 Node.js 和 pkg

Question

I'm currently trying to make my Node.js app into an executable using pkg, but I have encountered a problem. My app depends on a separate file called settings.json where vital settings are defined by the user. My app successfully gathers the information from settings.json when I run the Node app from command line, but the .exe variant made with pkg doesn't seem to follow the settings.json , instead it always follows the content settings.js that existed once the.exe was created.

The settings.json is imported like this in my js file:

const settings = require('./settings.json');

I have included this under pkg in package.json:

"pkg": {
    "assets": [
        "./node_modules/boxen/**",
        "./node_modules/chalk/**",
        "./node_modules/cheerio/**",
        "./node_modules/htmlparser2/**",
        "./node_modules/moment/**",
        "./node_modules/request/**"
    ]
  }

These are the dependencies that need to bundled with the .exe , but I have not included the settings.json here which is why I wonder why the .exe variant isn't reading from the settings.json file that's in the same directory.

Thanks for any input on this!

Answer 1

require is evaluated at build time. If you want to get the JSON at run time then you'll need to read the file and then parse it yourself.