title: Nodejs absolute paths in windows with forward slash
body: <p>Can I have absolute paths with forward slashes in windows in nodejs? I am using something like this :</p>
  
  <pre><code>global.__base = __dirname + '/';
  var Article = require(__base + 'app/models/article');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But on windows the build is failing as it is requiring something like <code>C:\Something\Something/apps/models/article</code>. I aam using webpack. So how to circumvent this issue so that the requiring remains the same i.e. <code>__base + 'app/models/src'</code>?</p>