Is it possible to require() other modules in custom views?

[dim882]

I want to collect some utils into a module and pull it into different custom views. I tried const utils = require('/views/utils'); but that fails. require does actually exist, but it can't resolve /views/utils. I tried a lot of variations (./utils, ./utils.js, etc.) but nothing works. I checked __dirname and that's /Applications/Obsidian.app/Contents/Resources/electron.asar/renderer, so it seems like there's no way for it to resolve the path, even though the actual utils.js file is in the same directory as the custom views. Is there a way to get require to work, or is there some other way of sharing code between custom views?

[blacksmithgu]

There has been a notable amount of discussion about this on #271, which I recommend checking out; I have ideas for how to do it but haven't got around to implementing it yet. require() needs to be specially proxied to understand links inside Obsidian vaults, because by default it will not try to resolve files inside the vault.

[dim882]

Ah, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Looks like the custom-js plugin might work for now.

[blacksmithgu]

custom-js isn't perfect but it is a good step forward in leiu of "first class" support.