KickJS Asset Manager — Type-Safe File Resolution from Dev to Dist

There is a familiar little discomfort that shows up the first time a Node.js service needs to read something off disk that is not source code. An email template. A JSON schema. A seed fixture. A vendored PDF. The first version is always a one-liner: fs.readFile(path.join(__dirname, '../templates/welcome.ejs')) . That works on your laptop. It also works in CI. And then you ship to production, your bundler flattens the output, __dirname points at dist/handlers/ instead of src/handlers/ , the relat