These object are available in the global scope and can be accessed from anywhere.
The global namespace object.
The process object. See the 'process object'
section.
To require modules. See the 'Modules'
section.
Use the internal require()
machinery to look up the location of a module,
but rather than loading the module, just return the resolved filename.
An array of search paths for require()
. This array can be modified to add
custom paths.
Example: add a new path to the beginning of the search list
require.paths.unshift('/usr/local/node');
The filename of the script being executed. This is the absolute path, and not necessarily the same filename passed in as a command line argument.
Example: running node example.js
from /Users/mjr
console.log(__filename);
// /Users/mjr/example.js
The dirname of the script being executed.
Example: running node example.js
from /Users/mjr
console.log(__dirname);
// /Users/mjr
A reference to the current module (of type process.Module
). In particular
module.exports
is the same as the exports
object. See src/process.js
for more information.