calling a function in another file in javascript using node.js

Question

I have a problem, i am trying to create an object that i can use over and over in a separate javascript file. I have a file called foo.js and another file called boo.js. I want to create the object in boo.js In my server.js file i required foo.js, and it works fine i can access foo.js. I want to be able to access boo.js from foo.js. I keep getting errors when i require boo.js in foo.js and i cant access it. Is There a way to do this?

here is my code

//boo.js
var obj = function () {
   return {
     data: 'data'
  }
}

module.exports = {
  obj: obj
}

foo.js

//foo.js

var request = require('request');
var x = require('./modules/boo')
var random= function() {
    return x.obj();
}

module.exports = {
  random: random
}

Answer 1

If they are in the same directory you will want to require like so var x = require('./boo') . The ./ is relative to the current directory.

Answer 2

they are both in the same directory

In that case, you'll want to remove the modules/ from the path:

var x = require('./boo');

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require() is aware of the current script's location and bases relative paths from the script's own parent directory.

The ./ at the start of the path will refer to the same directory as __dirname , which seems to be modules/ .

console.log(__dirname);
// "/project-path/modules"

Including modules/ in the path will result in doubling it:

var path = require('path');

console.log(path.resolve(__dirname, './modules/boo'));
// "/project-path/modules/modules/boo"

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(Side note: The fs module does not behave the same way. Relative paths for it are based from the current working directory or process.cwd() .)