command line node.js; running script with modules

Question

I'm doing some testing with node.js and several modules\libraries. For simplicity I'll focus on underscore.js.

When I run node.exe with the following source:

require("./underscore.js");
_.each({one : 1, two : 2, three : 3}, function(num, key){ console.log(num); });

I get:

C:\Dropbox\personal-work\foo\test code>node library-tests.js

node.js:208
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
ReferenceError: _ is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Dropbox\personal-work\foo\test code\library-tests.js:2:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:425:26)
    at Object..js (module.js:443:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:303:12)
    at Array.<anonymous> (module.js:463:10)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:200:26)

What is also strange is that when I run it like this:

node underscore.js library-tests.js

It doesn't seem to do anything at all...I've even added log statements, they don't seem to execute.

I've also tried pasting in the underscore.js source into the top of my source and I get the same error...

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks.

nickf · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-26 01:07:51Z

7

try assigning it:

var _ = require('../underscore.js');

You can see here in the annotated source code that underscore will not add itself to the global namespace if it is running in a CommonJS implementation (of which, Node.JS is one).

answered Sep 26, 2011 at 1:07

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