If you want to understand what is happening when you require a module, you could read the docs.

On the first look, your code snippets should work. To require a module inside node.js, you always use the path from the file.

But, in your case, you are just importing plain JS. In this case, the script runs out of your HTML call.

That logic could cause a lot of other problems, so I would recommend you to create your own modules. node.js makes that very easy.

var configuration = {a: 1,b: 2};

module.exports = configuration;

More reading aout that:

• https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v5.x/docs/api/modules.html


• http://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-module-exports-exports-node-js/

Inside your HTML file, you could put your modules together via require statements.