Cannot initialize "screen" module before app is ready

[also]

• Electron version: v1.2.1
• Operating system: OS X 10.11.5 (15F34)

The screen documentation starts with

const {app, BrowserWindow, screen: electronScreen} = require('electron');

Running this (even as the only line) in the main process throws an exception:

$ cat screen.js
const {app, BrowserWindow, screen: electronScreen} = require('electron');
$ ./node_modules/.bin/electron screen.js
App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot initialize "screen" module before app is ready
    at Error (native)
    at process.atomBinding (/Users/rberdeen/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/electron.asar/common/init.js:8:22)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/rberdeen/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/electron.asar/browser/api/screen.js:2:26)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:456:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:415:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:407:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:466:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)

[zcbenz]

This is an error of the documentation, you have to use the screen module like this:

const electron = require('electron')
app.on('ready', () => {
  const electronScreen = electron.screen
})

[fab1an]

Is there a way to lift this requirement? I'm writing my electron apps using Kotlin, so I don't have influence on the require calls, they are just generated by the compiler like this:

var app = $module$electron.app;
var screen = $module$electron.screen;
var last = Kotlin.kotlin.collections.last_2p1efm$;
var dropLast = Kotlin.kotlin.collections.dropLast_yzln2o$;
...

[fab1an]

Also just "requiring" something should definitely not have a sideeffect.