Why?

To prevent node.js devs from making applications with over 9k LOC in one file.

Installation

npm install broom

How can I use it?

• Split your code into small pieces with single responsibility.
• From each piece of code make module.
• Name it.
• Declare module dependencies.
• Run broom

Example:

var Broom = require('broom');

var flow = new Broom();

flow.setRoot(__dirname);

flow.registerPath('global', './dirWithModules', function () {
        var user = {
             'login':'r00t',
                'password':'12345'
         };
		flow.run('global', function (callback) {
	 	   callback(null, {'user':user});
		}, function (err, data) {
	 	   console.log(arguments);
		});
    });

broom.run method expect:

• Declared namespace.
• First function(to put in closure variables).
• Last function which called when all done or any error occured(execution model build on top of async.auto).

Example with express:

var Broom = require('broom');
var app = require('express').createServer();
var flow = new Broom();

flow.setRoot(__dirname);

flow.registerPath('global', './dirWithModules');

app.get('/path/:var1/var2', function (req, res) {
  flow.run('global', function (callback) {
     callback(null, {'req':req}); //any module can access to req params through data.start.req
 }, function (err, data) {
 if (err) {
  	  res.end('error'); //if any error occured - that function will be called immediately
  } else {
 	   res.end(data.renderHTML); //if you have module with name renderHTML and it passes rendered template in callback
 }
});

Module example

    var UserAuth = function () {
        this.name = 'userAuthorization'; //name of the module
        this.deps = ['start']; //dependency declaration
        this.onStart = this.entryPoint.bind(this); //module start point
    };
    UserAuth.prototype.entryPoint = function (callback, data) { //method will be called when "start" function is done
        var typicalUser = {
            'login':'r00t',
            'password':'12345'
        };
        var user = data.start.user || null;
        if (user && user.password == typicalUser.password && user.login == typicalUser.login) {
            callback(null, true);
        } else {
            callback(new Error('I dont know you'));
        }
    };


    module.exports = UserAuth;

For more check out example.js and test folder

Tests

vows test/test.js

Licence

MIT