I would like to include a couple of JSON files in my JavaScript code that are in the same directory as my JavaScript source file.
If I wanted to include another JavaScript file I could simply use require
.
Now I'm using readFileSync
and __dirname
to get the JSON, which I think is an ugly way to do it.
Is there something similar for require that enables me to load a JSON file?
As of Node v0.5.x, yes.
You can require your JSON just as you would require a JS file.
const someObject = require('./somefile.json')
In ES6:
import someObject from './somefile.json'