ES6 get path of module inside module

Question

How can i get moudle path inside module? I use babel and webpack to create bundle for browsers.

I expect

/src/someModule/index.js

console.log(`someModule path is ${process.execPath}`);

to output in browser someModule path is /home/user/proj/src/someModule

or someModule path is /src/someModule

Answer 1

There is no way to access the module path inside an ES6 module (yet). This is a known problem, and there's a stage 3 proposal for a new meta property import.meta that resolves to an object with the respective information. Read more about that here.

That said, the webpack bundler does support Node's __dirname, see e.g. Current file path in webpack or Webpack can not use __dirname?.

Answer 2

The import.meta is now supported in all modern browsers, yay!

// /es6/someFile.js
console.log(import.meta);

Outputs:

{url: "https://yourdomain.com/es6/someFile.js"}

(even though OP asked about webpack, I believe this info will be useful for many people coming here)