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# require-at
Allow you to call `require` or `require.resolve` pretending that you are at another directory.
## Purpose
Given the directory structure below with two NodeJS apps:
app1
|-+ foo
| +-- index.js
| +--+ node_modules
| +--+ x
| + ...
app2
|-+ bar
| +-- index.js
| +--+ node_modules
| +--+ y
| + ...
When you call `require("x")` in `/app1/foo/index.js`, NodeJS will search and find module `x` there.
Now from the same file, if you want to resolve the module `y` under the directory `/app2/bar`, you have to use an absolute or relative path directly pointing to `y`, and you may have to do some searching, probably re-implementing Node's module searching algorithm if you don't know exactly where `y` could be.
However, in the file `/app2/bar/index.js`, it can just do `require("y")` and Node would automatically find the module for it, because that file is at the location where `y` is under.
What if from the file `/app1/foo/index.js`, you can call `require` as if you were at the directory `/app2/bar`, then you would be able to utilize Node's module searching automatically.
To achieve this, most other implementations choose to re-implement Node's module searching algorithm.
This module's approach is to tap into Node's `module` and let it do the work.
## Install
$ npm install require-at --save
## Usage
A single function is exported.
##### `requireAt(dir, [request])`
- If you call it with just `dir`, then it returns a `require` function that's been binded to the directory `dir`. You can use it to load any module as if you are at `dir`.
- You can also call `require.resolve` with the same effect.
- If you call it with `dir` and a `request`, then it will load and return the module `request` as if at `dir`.
##### Example
```js
const requireAt = require("require-at");
// get back a require binded to /another/dir
const requireAtAnother = requireAt("/another/dir/");
const modXPath = requireAtAnother.resolve("modX");
const modX = requireAtAnother("modX");
// load modY at /another/yet/dir directly
const modY = requireAt("/another/yet/dir", "modY");
```
## License
Apache-2.0 © [Joel Chen](https://github.com/jchip)
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