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From: Walle Cyril <cyril.walle@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 01:21:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add example on how to create __filename, __dirname for
 esm
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/28282
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/28114
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Guy Bedford <guybedford@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/esm.md | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/esm.md b/doc/api/esm.md
index c4edc523571336..8b7b632f1cdad7 100644
--- a/doc/api/esm.md
+++ b/doc/api/esm.md
@@ -278,7 +278,16 @@ These CommonJS variables are not available in ES modules.
 
 `require` can be imported into an ES module using [`module.createRequire()`][].
 
-An equivalent for `__filename` and `__dirname` is [`import.meta.url`][].
+An equivalent for variable `__filename` and `__dirname` can be created inside
+each file with [`import.meta.url`][].
+
+```js
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import { dirname } from 'path';
+
+const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
+```
 
 ### No <code>require.extensions</code>