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Lombric
Lombric

Reputation: 840

Execute external Javascript NodeJS

I would like to execute an JS file passed in argument in my NodeJS app (without require each others)

Example :

$ node myapp test.js

test.js

console.log("Do some work")
test();

myapp.js

var test = function(){ console.log("Test working");
here_execute_js_in_process.argv[2]();

I tried the simplest option, read file thanks to fs.readFile and eval resulted data :

    fs.readFile(script, function(err,data){
      if(err) console.log(err);
      eval(data);
    });

but didn't worked, have you got a any solution ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1005

Answers (1)

Michael Blankenship
Michael Blankenship

Reputation: 1669

Test.js is good as is.

Slightly-modified myapp.js:

var fs = require('fs');

function include(inc) {
    eval(fs.readFileSync(inc, 'utf-8').toString());
}

console.log("Running myapp.js with arg[2]=[%s]", process.argv[2]);
var test = function() { console.log("Test working")};
if (process.argv[2])
  include(process.argv[2]);

Upvotes: 1

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