minicuper / norequire

Single "require" in you node.js app

Norequire

Single "require" in your node.js app

Install

  npm install norequire

Super simple to use

Norequire use global.app and data from package.json to automatical link all dependencies.

Your app package.json

{
    "name": "application-name"
  , "version": "0.0.1"
  , "dependencies": {
      "express": "latest"
    , "express3-handlebars": "latest"
    , "request": "latest"
    , "underscore": "latest"
    , "async": "latest"
    , "handlebars": "latest"
  }
}

Your app.js

require('norequire')();

After that you can access to all the packages in all your project js-files using app var.

For example:

app.async.series(
  ...
);

Options

You can pass some options in require:

var options = {
  appname: 'app.lib',
  dirname: __dirname,
  names: {'underscore': '_'},
  global: ['_', 'async'],
  ignore: ['handlebars']
};
require('singlerequire')(options);

• appname Use your global object instead of app for packages (app by default)
• dirname Dirname for your app package.json (prosess.mainModule.filename - dir by default)
• names Map of aliases, for example {'underscore': '_'}
• global Array of packages that should be global for all app js-files (['_', 'async'] for example) - use aliase if it is
• ignore Array of packages that should be ignored