Devin Rosario·Oct 30, 2025ES Modules __dirname Fix: Complete Guide (2025)Why ES Modules Broke __dirname
InCode ManthrabyManthravadi Siva Harsha Vardhan·Mar 1, 2023How to fix “__dirname is not defined in ES module scope”I was recently playing around with creating a PoC to extract tokens from Figma which produces a JSON object and then parse this JSON to…
SimplifiedCoding·Dec 20, 2021What is the dirname in node.js?In Node.js, __dirname is always the directory in which the currently executing script resides (see this). So if you typed __dirname into…
