How to import file with only extension?

Question

I wish import a file with only an extension (no name) : .sec. This file contains a json object with security parameters like login and password. The goal is to add the extension in .gitignore file to never save this file in a git repository.

I use babel-register and transform-es2015-modules-commonjs to convert esmodulle to commonjs. I added the new extension to babel-register options :

{
    "extensions": [".es6", ".es", ".js", ".sec"]
}

If I name the file security.sec and import it, all works. But if I name the file .sec when I import it, I have the error:

Cannot find module '.sec'

So how to import a file without name? Is this the right way to do this? Is there an existing file extension to save security parameter?

Answer 1

You need to specify the path to '.sec'

eg

const sec = require('./.sec')

You could also check out the dotenv module.