Mocha tests: avoid '../../' when requiring

Question

My folder structure is:

/backend/services/service.js
/test/backend/services/service.js

In each service test, I use the following:

var service = require('../../../backend/services/service')

Is there a more elegant way of automatically requiring the file with the same path, only without the test folder? Maybe using mocha.opts somehow?

Answer 1

I can give you a solution a little hacky that I use. I have a /test/__bootstrap.test.js file where I create a global testRequire() function that I only use for tests:

// Creation of a wrapper to avoid ../../../.. using require()
global.testRequire = function(name) {
  return require(path.join(__dirname, '..', name));
};

Then in /test/backend/services/service.js I use testRequire() instead of require() .

var service =  = testRequire('backend/services/service');