load

Because fuck dedicated module patterns, module loaders, compilers and other kind of pointless code bloat that requires me to wrap my client-side JavaScript for server usage.

People need to understand that the Node.js module system is nothing more then a vm that reads our a pre-defined module variable. We don't need to be stuck in this pattern, we can just get all the globals that are introduced while we load the script and tada, we're running the snippet on the server.

Installation

Load is available in npm so you can install it by running:

npm --save load

API

var load = require('load');

// file.js contents:
//
// function test() { return 'test' };
//

// load returns all the introduced globals as an object, so specify the name of
// function you need in order to call it.
var test = load('file.js').test;

// file2.js contents:
//
// function test() {}
// function test1() {}
//

var library = load('file2');
console.log(library.test);
console.log(library.test1);

var moo = load.compiler('function cow() { console.log("moo") }', 'moo.js');
moo(); // console.log('moo');

// And that it.

License

MIT

1.0.0

• Major: The API no longer automatically assumes an module.exports pattern. It will always return an object with all introduced globals.

0.1.4

• Don't expose the module.exports and exports as predefined globals.

0.1.3

• Don't throw when we cannot delete the introduced globals.

0.1.2

• Fixes optional globals arg.

0.1.1

• Make it possible to add globals to the loaded script.
• Added missing __dirname and __filename.

0.1.0

• It exposes the compiler.

0.0.3

• Removed pointless missing globals code, we can just use global variable as it's available in node and lists all introduced globals.

0.0.2

• Added some missing globals

0.0.1

• Automatically add a .js extension if missing.

0.0.0

• initial release