Import json file with different name

[johnroper100]

• Node.js Version: 11
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Scope (install, code, runtime, meta, other?): Code

I have been able to import json files using require("myfile.json");. I have some files that are actually json but are named with a different file extension (myfile.jlib for example). How can I require them as normal json without changing the filename?

[richardlau]

The deprecated way is to use require.extensions.

I'm not aware of a replacement for the CommonJS module loader (require()) other than to read the file in with something like fs.readFile() and calling JSON.parse() on the results.

For ECMAScript modules (esm) the replacement seems to be to use loader hooks.

cc @nodejs/modules