Node style requires

[euforic]

Fix require to function similar to node js encapsulating seperate scripts in thier own context similar to titanium. Pull request may follow if my cappy obj-c skills permit. Thanks for the awesome opensource !

[tj]

+99999 commonjs is the way to go for sure if this hasn't been implemented yet, we could re-use all 400+ github.com/component and many node modules

[phoboslab]

Well, providing a CommonJS style require() function wouldn't magically make all NodeJS modules work. Ejecta is still missing all of Node's other APIs.

I kept this issue around, because I wanted to see demand for it, but my thought is, that you use Ejecta to make things, that were written for the Browser, work on iOS devices. And Browsers don't have CommonJS support either.

A NodeJS implementation on iOS is a nice idea too, but quite a different endeavor.

[tj]

it's easy to make browsers support commonjs, that's what component is, all of those that are not dom-related would work just fine with ejecta. The current way we develop js is hindered by browsers and their lack of modularity but nothing will fix that, only user-land can fix this, and that's what component is doing

[phoboslab]

Oh, I'm sorry. I assumed all those modules were nodejs specific.

I still think the current behaviour of ejecta.require() is useful and I want to keep it. So if we support a global commonJS style require() function, I'd probably want to rename the current ejecta.require() to avoid confusion. ejecta.include() or ejecta.import() maybe? Thoughts?

[tj]

include sounds good to me :D

[phoboslab]

Just added the CommonJS style require() function. ejecta.require() is now ejecta.include(): 7edd66a

I tested a few example modules with and it seemed to work fine. Please let me know if there's anything missing.