Question

I am working on a CMS system for Node.js, I have a quick question for those Node.js Pro’s

I am creating modules and requiring modules within those modules, but if I have already included this module in the parent module, can I access those required modules?

For Example:

main.js
    var fs = require('fs');
    var sc = require('second.js');


second.js
    var fs = require('fs'); // Is there any way to use the parent modules fs object?

It just seems I am including the same modules in some of my sub modules and rather not do that if possible.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It shouldn’t matter, since Node caches modules when they’re first included (i.e. the side-effects of requiring a module won’t be executed a second time). You can force this cache to be cleared (and thus re-execute said side-effects) by tampering with require.cache.