import.meta.url returns relative path

[cusxio]

https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#esm_import_meta_url

In the docs, it says that import.meta.url returns an absolute url, but when I tried it with the example in the examples folder, import.meta.url returns a relative path.

I'm trying to replicate __dirname.

Reproduction: https://github.com/cusxio/vite-plugin-node-import

[axe-me]

are you using it in ESM code?

__dirname is not available in esm anymore, see https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#esm_no_filename_or_dirname

[cusxio]

ah I see! Wasn't aware of that. Thank you!

[cusxio]

I've updated the issue.

[axe-me]

hi @cusxio , I just verified that in vite the import.meta.url does return a relative path. To convert a relative path to an absolute one you can do: path.resolve(import.meta.url)

[cusxio]

So it seems that vite import.meta.url returns a different result from Node's.

In normal Node, import.meta.url returns file:///Users/x/Documents/test.ts.

So in vite, we'll need to use pathToFileURL.

The replicate __dirname in vite, dirname(fileURLToPath(pathToFileURL(import.meta.url)))