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NW.js Essentials

You're reading from  NW.js Essentials

Product type Book
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785280863
Pages 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

NW.js Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meet NW.js 2. NW.js Native UI APIs 3. Leveraging the Power of Node.js 4. Data Persistence Solutions and Other Browser Web APIs 5. Let's Put It All Together 6. Packaging Your Application for Distribution 7. Automated Packaging Tools 8. Let's Debug Your Application 9. Taking Your Application to the Next Level Index

Handling paths in NW.js


At first, handling paths in NW.js can be quite tricky. The first time you might find yourself in trouble is when requiring a custom module not stored in the default node_modules folder. Let's say, for example, this is our folder structure:

Application root
- data/myData.json
- js/script.js
- modules/myModule.js
- modules/otherModule.js
- index.html
- package.json

When requiring a module from the window context, the module's path is treated as relative to the application's root directory, so in our example, whether you're calling it from index.html or js/script.js, we would proceed as shown in the following code:

require('./modules/myModule');

When calling a module from another module, however, you should use the relative path from the current file. So, let's say we're requiring otherModule.js from myModule.js, which is in the same folder:

require('./otherModule');

The next thing you might worry about is how to access files for I/O operations from both contexts using their...

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