Is it possible to import modules from all files in a directory, using a wildcard?

Question

With ES6, I can import several exports from a file like this:

import {ThingA, ThingB, ThingC} from \'lib/things\';

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Answer 1

Just an other approach to @Bergi's answer

// lib/things/index.js
import ThingA from './ThingA';
import ThingB from './ThingB';
import ThingC from './ThingC';

export default {
 ThingA,
 ThingB,
 ThingC
}

Uses

import {ThingA, ThingB, ThingC} from './lib/things';

Answer 2

if you don't export default in A, B, C but just export {} then it's possible to do so

// things/A.js
export function A() {}

// things/B.js
export function B() {}

// things/C.js
export function C() {}

// foo.js
import * as Foo from ./thing
Foo.A()
Foo.B()
Foo.C()

Answer 3

Just a variation on the theme already provided in the answer, but how about this:

In a Thing,

export default function ThingA () {}

In things/index.js,

export {default as ThingA} from './ThingA'
export {default as ThingB} from './ThingB'
export {default as ThingC} from './ThingC'

Then to consume all the things elsewhere,

import * as things from './things'
things.ThingA()

Or to consume just some of things,

import {ThingA,ThingB} from './things'

Answer 4

I've used them a few times (in particular for building massive objects splitting the data over many files (e.g. AST nodes)), in order to build them I made a tiny script (which I've just added to npm so everyone else can use it).

Usage (currently you'll need to use babel to use the export file):

$ npm install -g folder-module
$ folder-module my-cool-module/

Generates a file containing:

export {default as foo} from "./module/foo.js"
export {default as default} from "./module/default.js"
export {default as bar} from "./module/bar.js"
...etc

Then you can just consume the file:

import * as myCoolModule from "my-cool-module.js"
myCoolModule.foo()

Answer 5

I don't think this is possible, but afaik the resolution of module names is up to module loaders so there might a loader implementation that does support this.

Until then, you could use an intermediate "module file" at lib/things/index.js that just contains

export * from 'ThingA';
export * from 'ThingB';
export * from 'ThingC';

and it would allow you to do

import {ThingA, ThingB, ThingC} from 'lib/things';

Answer 6

Similar to the accepted question but it allows you to scale without the need of adding a new module to the index file each time you create one:

./modules/moduleA.js

export const example = 'example';
export const anotherExample = 'anotherExample';

./modules/index.js

// require all modules on the path and with the pattern defined
const req = require.context('./', true, /.js$/);

const modules = req.keys().map(req);

// export all modules
module.exports = modules;

./example.js

import { example, anotherExample } from './modules'