https://github.com/thibauts/require

Experiments with module loading in the browser
https://github.com/thibauts/require

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Experiments with module loading in the browser

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thibauts/require
• Owner: thibauts
• Created: 2014-06-29T02:43:23.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-06-29T03:11:00.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T07:21:28.990Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 129 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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### Experiments with module loading in the browser

Allows async require of remote modules over http through `require(url, callback)`. Modules can be preloaded / prebundled with `bundler.js`. Implements caching of already loaded modules. Cached / preloaded modules can be required synchronously through `var mymodule = require('mymodule')`. `bundler.js` has full support for source-maps, including combining them on multiple levels (ie. work with coffee files).

This is a work in progress and the API is still lacking (eg. no way to dynamically preload bundles yet). Not that it is particularly difficult to implement, but designing a clear and robust API is.

The goal is to have multi-level bundling to be able to break large applications into multiple (lighter) bundles that can be loaded on-demand. Focus is put on implementing a clean, simple and minimal API and interfacing in the best possible way with external tooling (ie. leave transforms and minification to the build pipeline, among other things).

A longer term goal, if I ever work on it, would be to make the (require) code run in node.

Dependencies

------------

``` bash

npm install --global uglify-js coffee-script

```

Usage

-----

``` bash

git clone https://github.com/thibauts/require.git

cd require

npm install

make

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

```

Then direct you browser to `http://localhost:8000/` and check the console.