tiny-require

Package your commonJS modules for browsers

Status: Development

• example
• motivation
• docs
• installation
• test
• contributors
• licence

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Example

// entry.js
var o = require("./o")
o.doIt()

// o.js
module.exports = { 
    doIt: function () {
        console.log("you did it")    
    }
}

Compiles to

(function () {
    var c={} // var cache = {}

    function r(t) { // function require(token) {
        return c[t] // return cache[token]
    }

    function d(t,f,m) { // function define(token, func, module) {
        m={} // module = {}
        f(r, m) // func(require, module)
        c[t] = m.exports // cache[token] = module.exports
    }

    d("b", function (require, module) { // define("./o", ...
        module.exports = {
            doIt: function () {
                console.log("you did it")
            }
        }
    })

    d("a", function (require, module) { // define("./entry", ...
        var o = require("b") // var o = require("./o")
        o.doIt()
    })
}())

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Motivation

• modul8
• browserify
• webmake

All handle this in a similar fashion but they give a large overhead in terms of extra bytes in the compiled file

To cut corners on byte size the following techniques are used

• require urls are normalized on the server and then mapped to minimized strings
• the require/define functions are as small as possible
• only module.exports is supported, the exports token doesn't exist

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Documentation

TBD

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Installation

$ npm install tiny-require

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Test

$ make test

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Contributors

• Raynos

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MIT Licenced

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