@Sean
Ah ofcourse, thanks for the explanation!

My function does not have dependencies. I’ll use good old eval to fix this!

My use case is that I need to use a different function based on the language setting of the mirror. These functions live in a separate folder and I import them in the node_helper.js file (together with some other arrays and objects I need based on language). For now I’ll use this solution, maybe in the future I build in a build step in my module so I can import the files directly into my main module file.

https://github.com/ngnijland/MMM-text-clock/pull/2

@sdetweil thanks for your reply!

I don’t think I completely understand you. What do you mean with “send the entire function”? Do you mean I can’t import a reference? And should write out the function in the node_helper.js file?

Hello,

When I receive a socket notification in my node_helper.js file I want to sent a socket notification with an object containing a function as value of one of its keys. Like this:

const NodeHelper = require('node_helper');
const someFunction = require('./someFunction');

module.exports = NodeHelper.create({
  start: function () {
    console.log('Start node helper');
  },

  socketNotificationReceived: function (notification) {
    if (notification === 'FOO') {
      this.sendSocketNotification('FOO', { bar: someFunction });
    }
  },
});

However, when I receive this notification inside my main module file the function is not present in the payload:

  socketNotificationReceived: function (notification, payload) {
    if (notification === 'FOO') {
      console.log(payload.bar); // This logs 'undefined'
    }
  },

Any other values (object, arrays, etc) I pass in the payload are received correctly.

Does somebody know why the function I pass with the payload is undefined when I receive the socket notification in my main module file?