demander

Loades modules in an alternative to node.js native 'require' method, allowing to load a module with additional global-like variables (like __dirname or __filename).

Also useful, if you want to hide some global methods or variabels from your module scope.

Quickstart

npm install demander

Then make reference inside yor module...

const demand = require('demander');

const result = demand('filename');

API

demander(path, [context], [arguments], [options])

Loads the module with desired behavior

Arguments

• path - (string) A full path to the module
• context - (any) optional; Any context, that will be eccesable ander "this"
• arguments - (object) optional; An object with arguments names as its properties names and arguments values as its properties values. For example:

{
  paramA: 'value A',
  paramB: 'value B'
}

• options - (object) optional; An object with options
• options.clearCache - (boolen) optional; true, if we want to delete saved module from the 'require' cache; by default it is false
• options.hideGlobals - (array) optional; A list of names of globals, that we want to hide in a loading module scope; by default it does't hide anything

Possible values:

// to hide defaults globals 'require', '__dirname' and '__filename'
options.hideGlobals = [];
// or
options.hideGlobals = ['all'];

// to hide only a spacific global variable
options.hideGlobals = ['require'];
// in this case it will not be possible to require another module from the loading module

Returns

any - loaded module "exports" property

Testing

npm test

License

MIT