Replacing your paths, with universal paths - Linux

Question

I have created a small Node.js application, which also invokes a python script.

In both the node server and the python script, exist hardcoded paths.

In Python's case:

myStoreDir = '/home/user1/Desktop/app/dataContainer/'

In Node's case:

var pathAndFileName = '/home/user1/Desktop/app/dataContainer/'+fileName;

Of course the small app works flawlessly in my system. But when i gave the code to a colleague to run the app in a docker container, he had problems obvisouly, as these paths did not exist on his system.

Is there a way to declare those paths differently, both in node.js, and in python. So that anyone can run it?

Please have in mind, that the file structure /app/dataContainer, will exist for sure, because this is the result of a git pull.

Is there a way to fix this, so the path previous to /app, is fixed to the location of the git pulled directory?

Answer 1

You can either use relative paths or provide the path as an environment variable or as part of the arguments when you invoke the scripts