Automod

Module loading and name-spacing for Node.js app.s

Installation

npm install --save-dev automod

What

Autmod helps you expose and use modules within your app. With node's exports system, it effectively becomes a dependecy injection module.

Why

One day I got sick of writing the same require statements everywhere.

How

In your server's entry file:

var mods = require('automod');

mods({ignore: [], data: {}, path: ''});

1. Ignore Automod will examine all directories startiing on the same directory as your entry file and try and require them.

2. Data This is to pass other required modules to your modules. Consider:

   var mods = require('automod');
   var mongo = require('mongodb');
   
   var persistence = {
      Db: mongo.Db,
      Server: mongo.Server,
      Connection: mongo.Connection
   };
   
   mods({ignore: [], data: persistence, path: ''});

Now the persistence data will be available in you module.

In your modules:

A sample users module

 module.exports = function(app) {
  var Users = app.data.persistence.Db.collection('users');
    
 };