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Modern applications

Most JavaScript developers love making modern applications, with our new language features and latest libraries making our life easier, but has any one ever actually wondered if this ever impacts our users.

We are dealing with abstractions, abstractions are trying to cover a general use case which could not be conforming to yours. Some are over-engineered in ways one can't possibly comprehend, use cases that will never be reached by middle sized applications. Some of these over

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branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active April 11, 2025 10:39
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions