There are often situations where you'd like to pass a different require function into a require("foo") call like specialOtherRequire("foo"). This is quite easy in CommonJS, yet challenging in ES-next import's because the outputted require is not directly under user control.

This plugin allows import statements to conditionally have the require call rewritten in generated output.

Installation

The plugin is available via npm:

$ npm install babel-plugin-replace-require

Usage

Provide an object of token, code replacement string pairs. The code replacement expressions are actually parsed and inserted into the AST.

.babelrc: Our configuration

{
  "plugins": [
    ["replace-require", {
      "GLOBAL_REQUIRE": "global.myBetterRequire",
      "REQUIRED_REQUIRE": "require('require-from-somewhere-else')"
    }]
  ]
}

src/index.js: A source file with es6 / Node.js type imports.

// es6 style
import foo from "GLOBAL_REQUIRE/foo";

// CommonJS style
const foo = require("REQUIRED_REQUIRE/foo");

lib/index.js: The outputted file, processed by the plugin.

// es6 style
var _foo = global.myBetterRequire("foo");

var _foo2 = _interopRequireDefault(_foo);

function _interopRequireDefault(obj) { return obj && obj.__esModule ? obj : { default: obj }; }

// CommonJS style
var bar = require('require-from-somewhere-else')("bar");

Related Projects

Builder

This plugin was written to help implement the module pattern in builder archetypes for enabling dependency encapsulation.

Webpack

This plugin is useful for code patterns that work in Node.js for alternate require's. If the code needs to run on the frontend via webpack, the webpack-alternate-require-loader can further process the output of this plugin into fully-resolved modules analogous to what Node.js would do.

Contributions

Contributions welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md