Lazy Require

Lazy require allows you to require modules lazily, meaning that when you lazy require a module that is missing, lazy require will automatically install it for you.

Install

NPM

• Use: require('lazy-require')
• Install: npm install --save lazy-require

Usage

// Import
var lazyRequire = require('lazy-require')

// Attempt to load the module `ambi`, if it doesn't exist, then try to install it and load it again
// Do this synchronously, only available in Node 0.12 and above
// Passing a callback as the 3rd argument will do this asynchronously, available in all node versions
var ambi = lazyRequire('ambi', {/* options */})
if ( ambi instanceof Error ) {
	// Error ....
	console.log('ambi failed to load because of:', ambi.stack)
} else {
	// Success ...
}

// Attempt to load the module `ambi`, if it doesn't exist, then try to install it and load it again
// Do this synchronously but with a callback, only available in Node 0.12 and above
lazyRequire.sync('ambi', {/* options */}, function(err, ambi){
	// Error ...
	if (err)  return console.log('ambi failed to load because of:', err.stack)

	// Success ...
})

// Attempt to load the module `ambi`, if it doesn't exist, then try to install it and load it again
// Do this asynchronously, available in all node versions
lazyRequire.async('ambi', {/* options */}, function(err, ambi){
	// Error ...
	if (err)  return console.log('ambi failed to load because of:', err.stack)

	// Success ...
})

// Attempt to load the module `ambi`, if it doesn't exist, then try to install it and load it again
// Do this synchronously if supported (Node 0.12 and above), otherwise do it asynchronously
lazyRequire.auto('ambi', {/* options */}, function(err, ambi){
	// Error ...
	if (err)  return console.log('ambi failed to load because of:', err.stack)

	// Success ...
})

The following options are supported:

• cwd the module path that you would like the requested package to be installed to if it doesn't exist, always recommended
• save if the requested package doesn't exist, would you like to do a npm --save for it to add it to your cwd's package.json dependencies?

There's some other methods also available to you, for now, read the source to discover them.

History

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Contribute

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Backers

Maintainers

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• Benjamin Lupton b@lupton.cc (https://github.com/balupton)

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• Benjamin Lupton b@lupton.cc — view contributions

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License

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• Copyright © 2013+ Bevry Pty Ltd us@bevry.me (http://bevry.me)

and licensed under:

• The incredibly permissive MIT License