cross-dirname

Node.js + Gjs + Deno module that returns the current script dirname. Similar to __dirname but also works in CommonJs and ES modules.

Installation

On Node.js and GJS you can install the package as with NPM:

npm install cross-dirname --save

On Deno you just need to import this package:

import dirname from 'https://deno.land/x/cross_dirname/mod.ts';

Usage

Node.js ESM

// /path/to/the/script.mjs
import dirname from 'cross-dirname'

console.log(dirname()) // outputs "/path/to/the"

Node.js CJS

// /path/to/the/script.cjs
console.log(require('cross-dirname')() === __dirname) // true

Deno

// /path/to/the/script.ts
import dirname from 'https://deno.land/x/cross_dirname@v0.0.4/mod.ts';
console.log(dirname()); // outputs "/path/to/the"

GJS

You can use NPM packages in GJS with a bundler like esbuild.

Take a look at the examples for an GJS + esbuild example, you can start the example like this:

# Install dev dependencies 
npm install

# Go to the example
cd examples/gjs

# Bundle src/index.js
node esbuild.mjs

# Run the bundled index.js
gjs -m index.js

Examples

You can run the examples with

npm install
npm run build

deno run ./examples/deno/index.ts 
# -> /.../examples/deno

node ./examples/node/index.cjs 
# -> /.../examples/node

node ./examples/node/index.mjs 
# -> /.../examples/node

node ./examples/gjs/esbuild.mjs
gjs -m ./examples/gjs/index.js 
# -> /.../examples/gjs

Contributions

Contributions for more platforms are welcome :)

Tests

This module has been tested on the following platforms:

You can run all tests with:

npm run test

Or the tests for a special runtime:

npm run test:node
npm run test:deno
npm run test:gjs
npm run test:browser´