Including Custom Modules in Node Express

Question

I'm new to Node/Express and I'm not entirely sure where things go...

I want to have a little custom class - where do I put this custom code in my express app? I seem to have to put it inside "node_modules" for it to be picked up by require which isn't really what I want. Ideally I'd like to have it in a lib folder or the likes.

How can I do this?

Ash · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-17 17:15:26Z

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Let's say you had a Person class like this in lib/person:

var Person = function (firstName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
};

You can export this using node's module.exports like this (in lib/person):

module.exports = Person;

To use the person class you would then do:

var Person = require('./lib/person');   
var jim = new Person('jim');

answered Jan 17, 2016 at 17:15

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Valerie Over a year ago

Hey! Thanks for answering. I tried this... is it still './lib/person' if you are calling require from /routes/index.js? It can't seem to find it.

Ash Over a year ago

That's it, glad I could help!

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