Force Resolve

Ensure to resolve the path of a NPM dependency. Similar to force-require but return the path of the dependency instead.

Install

npm install force-resolve --save

Usage

var forceResolve = require('force-resolve');
 
// [
//   '/Users/kikobeats/Projects/force-resolve/node_modules/mocha',
//   '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha'
// ]

API

forceResolve.(<String>, [cb])

Try to load a dependency based in the name. If cb is provided then the call will be resolved as sync interface.

Internally the library follow the next algorithm:

1. Try to require the dependency locally. This means that exists in the current process.cwd()/node_modules folder as direct dependency or a dependency of another dependency.

2. If not possible to resolve locally, then try to resolve globally in your system. Try to require the dependency globally using the module global-modules.

3. At this poin of the algorithm, the dependency was not found. Let's install as global module and later require it.

License

MIT © Kiko Beats