Broswer require()

Provide synchronous require in browser for development purposes. A convenient replacement for watchify (dynamic, no configs needed). Strives to be compliant with browserify, in that code using require-stub is fully browserifyable.

$ npm install --save-dev require-stub

<!-- provide `reqiure` -->
<script src="node_modules/require-stub/index.js"></script>

<!-- use require -->
<script>
	var assert = require("chai").assert;
	var Emitter = require("emitter");
</script>

If you find something doesn’t work, report a bug.

How does it work?

Via synchronous XMLHttpRequest. To resolve module paths used package.json closest to the current page. To stub native packages is used browser-builtins. Required scripts are evaled, so to provide module scopes.

Precautions

• Don’t use in production: dynamic evals proved to be ~3x slower than browserified code. But it is good for perf testing.

Similar efforts

• breq — resolves relative requirements.
• TKRequire — resolves relative requirements.
• smoothie.js — resolves relative requirements.

Best wishes,

Deema.