In Node.js, how do I “include” functions from my other files?

Question

Let\'s say I have a file called app.js. Pretty simple:

var express = require(\'express\');
var app = express.createServer();
app.set(\'views\', __dirname + \         


        

Answer 1

I was also looking for a NodeJS 'include' function and I checked the solution proposed by Udo G - see message https://stackoverflow.com/a/8744519/2979590. His code doesn't work with my included JS files. Finally I solved the problem like that:

var fs = require("fs");

function read(f) {
  return fs.readFileSync(f).toString();
}
function include(f) {
  eval.apply(global, [read(f)]);
}

include('somefile_with_some_declarations.js');

Sure, that helps.