#ljswitchboard-require

A special "require" extension developed for the ljswitchboard project aka (Kipling). This project has a unique requirement where a single node-js process was split among multiple root directories. The program needs to be stored in several "chunks" to run optimally therefore requiring the use of multiple "node_module" directories. This project allows users to declare "root" directories that require would normally operate properly in and require the node_modules available in those directories.

Essentially, this module calls the nodejs require function with a stored "n" number of additional paths that gets automatically appended to the require call once it is appropriately initialized.

To the list described on the node.js modules describing Loadinf from node_modules Folders, ljswitchboard-require adds a customizable "n" number of additional directories to search in.

aka (mimicking the node.js example): If the file at '/home/ry/projects/foo.js' called ljswitchboard-require.require('bar.js'), then node will essentially look in the following locations:

• /home/ry/projects/node_modules/bar.js
• /home/ry/node_modules/bar.js
• /home/node_modules/bar.js
• /node_modules/bar.js
• /yourDirectory/bar.js
• /process.cwd()/bar.js

NOTE: The one flaw of this library as of right now is that require doesn't get executed from the path of the caller and I am not sure how it will perform when multiple modules start to use it. The fix for this may be to switch to using rekuire instead of require but I am avoiding this right now for speed purposes.