path.dirname(process.mainModule.filename);

所有这些“根dirs”大多需要解析一些虚拟路径到一个真实的堆路径，所以可能你应该看看path.resolve?

var path= require('path');
var filePath = path.resolve('our/virtual/path.ext');

在app.js中创建一个函数

/*函数获取应用程序根文件夹*/

var appRootFolder = function(dir,level){
    var arr = dir.split('\\');
    arr.splice(arr.length - level,level);
    var rootFolder = arr.join('\\');
    return rootFolder;
}

// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(appRootFolder(__dirname,1),'views'));

尝试path._makeLong(“some_filename_on_root.js”);

例子:

cons path = require('path');
console.log(path._makeLong('some_filename_on_root.js');

这将返回你的节点应用程序的根目录的完整路径(与package.json相同的位置)

这对我很有用

process.env.PWD

获得全局根的最简单方法(假设你使用NPM来运行你的node.js应用程序' NPM start'，等等)

var appRoot = process.env.PWD;

如果你想交叉验证上面的内容

假设你想交叉检查process.env.PWD与node.js应用程序的设置。如果您想要一些运行时测试来检查process.env的有效性。PWD，你可以用这段代码(我写的似乎工作得很好)交叉检查它。你可以用包中的npm_package_name交叉检查apot中最后一个文件夹的名称。Json文件，例如:

    var path = require('path');

    var globalRoot = __dirname; //(you may have to do some substring processing if the first script you run is not in the project root, since __dirname refers to the directory that the file is in for which __dirname is called in.)

    //compare the last directory in the globalRoot path to the name of the project in your package.json file
    var folders = globalRoot.split(path.sep);
    var packageName = folders[folders.length-1];
    var pwd = process.env.PWD;
    var npmPackageName = process.env.npm_package_name;
    if(packageName !== npmPackageName){
        throw new Error('Failed check for runtime string equality between globalRoot-bottommost directory and npm_package_name.');
    }
    if(globalRoot !== pwd){
        throw new Error('Failed check for runtime string equality between globalRoot and process.env.PWD.');
    }

你也可以使用这个NPM模块:require('app-root-path')，它非常适合这个目的