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Cai Penny
Cai Penny

Reputation: 105

How can I make 'require(packageName)' read multiple module paths besides 'node_modules'?

I've got an old project on my hands which uses cortex and gulp to construct the code.

Cortex is a package tool, kind of like npm, but it puts the packages under its own directory called neurons, not node_modules. As the code scales and becomes larger, I want to use webpack's hot loader in the dev environment. But when I run webpack, require can't find packages that are installed by cortex because it always tries to locate them in the node_modules folder instead of the neurons folder.

(The packages are very old, I can't even find them in the npm, which means I have to use cortex's packages)

Is there any way to make the require function read different paths?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Rick
Rick

Reputation: 1209

Yes, you can set it in your webpack.config.js like this:

resolve: {
  modules: [
    path.resolve('./neurons'),
    'node_modules'
  ]
}

The modules option defaults to: modules: ["node_modules"], so that's why it can't find your cortex packages.

Upvotes: 1

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