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vinhboy
vinhboy

Reputation: 8982

How to DRY requires in a Node Express app?

I have a Node + Express app. In many of my files I am doing this at the top

const config = require('./config');
const Twit = require('twit');
const TwitConnector = new Twit(config);

Is there a way to DRY this, so I don't have to repeat this everywhere?

Is there a, best practice, pattern to make something like TwitConnector globally available so that I can use it anytime I need it?

Or maybe that's not a good idea and explicitly requiring it is the right thing to do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Saugat
Saugat

Reputation: 1339

Can't you make twit-connector.js file and require that instead? I don't think making it global is a good idea.

twit-connector.js

const config = require('./config');
const Twit = require('twit');
const TwitConnector = new Twit(config);

module.exports = TwitConnector;

somefile.js

const TwitConnector = require('./twit-connector');

// do something with TwitConnector

Upvotes: 2

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