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Show HN: Wavy – use a tilde in require and import calls

by kolodny on 4/7/16, 7:40 PM with 6 comments

• by pedalpete on 4/8/16, 1:20 AM

  this sounds like a bit of a bad idea, but I'm willing to be open minded and convinced. I develop on Windows, I know I'm in the minority, but I recently took over a project which was absolutely littered with symlinks which made no sense (like pointing script tags to a folder which symlinked to another folder).

  If your app is structured in such a way as you are traversing many levels of directories to include scripts, I think you've got a fairly basic issue with your app, this band aid may make it worse.

  I also 'think' this could make it very easy to end up with circular references as you aren't really tracking where the files you're requiring are coming from.

  Keen to hear about why you thought this was important.

• by adnanh on 4/9/16, 7:46 PM

  Interesting, I wasn't the only one who had this issue. I wrote a similar browserify transform [1] that lets you use absolute path in import and require statements (basically rewrites / to the appropriate ../ combination)

  [1] https://github.com/adnanh/detachkify