npm-dependency-injection

A very dumb version of dependency injection for npm.

Please don't use this for anything that is production code. This is great for personal tools and projects that need npm dependencies without maintaining a package.json (example: Hyper.app).

How to use

1. Import the module

   import npm from 'npm-dependency-injection';

2. Pass an array of npm module dependencies as well as the current working directory

   // Asynchronous promise based API
   const dependenciesPromise = npm.async(
     ['pokemonsay', 'cat-pad'],
     { output: true, cwd: __dirname },
   );
   
   // Synchronous API
   const { pokemonsay, 'cat-pad': catPad } = npm.sync(
     ['pokemonsay', 'cat-pad'],
     { output: true, cwd: __dirname },
   );

3. If using async, wait for the promise to resolve and use your dependencies

   dependenciesPromise
     .then(
       dependencies => {
         const { pokemonsay, 'cat-pad': catPad } = dependencies;
         // Do logic here
       }
     )
     .catch(
       err => {
         console.error(err);
         process.exit(1);
       }
     );

API

Methods

• sync(arrayOfDependencies, options): Synchronous method that returns a dependencies object (see below for details).

• async(arrayOfDependencies, options): Asynchronous method that returns a promise which resolves to a dependencies object (see below for details).

Arguments

• arrayOfDependencies: An array of strings that are the names of npm modules.

• options: An object with the following properties

  • cwd: String, absolute path to where npm modules should be read from, saved, or installed to. Defaults to process.cwd.

  • output: Boolean, whether to show the output from npm; logs using console.log and console.error. Good for debugging purposes.

Dependencies Object

This is the result of either of the methods above. Keys will be the name of the npm module and values will be the npm module after being required. example below:

{
  pokemonsay: {
    default: {
       iChooseYou: [Function: iChooseYou],
       random: [Function: random],
       say: [Function: say]
    }
  },
  'cat-pad': [Function]
}