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Just load devDependencies of the current project or any other dependencies. Useful for any node.js app that needs to load plugins from node_modules. Faster alternative to `load-plugins`.

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Just load devDependencies of the current project or any other dependencies. Useful for any node.js app that needs to load plugins from node_modules. 15-20x times faster alternative to load-plugins and gulp-load-plugins.

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Install

npm i load-deps --save

Usage

For more use-cases see the tests

const loadDeps = require('load-deps')

Load modules of the current project, by default loads dependencies from devDependency property from package.json, but can be customized.

Params

  • patterns {String|Array|Function|RegExp|Object}
  • opts {Object}: see options section
  • returns {Object}

Example

var appname = require('app-name')
var loadDeps = require('load-deps')

var strip = ['gulp', 'handlebars', 'helpers']
var rename = function renameFn(name) {
  return appname(name, strip)
}

var plugin = loadDeps('gulp-*', {renameKey: rename})

gulp.task('default', function () {
  gulp.src('test/*.js')
    .pipe(plugin.jshint())
    .pipe(plugin.mocha())
    .pipe(plugin.stylus())
    .pipe(plugin.mustache())
    .pipe(plugin.istanbul())
})

Options

options.require

Pass a custom function for requireing files.

var loadDeps = require('load-deps')
var plugin = loadDeps('gulp-*', {
  require: function (name) {
    // do stuff to name
  }
})

options.renameKey

Pass a renameKey function to change how plugins are named.

var loadDeps = require('load-deps')
var plugin = loadDeps('my-plugins-*', {
  renameKey: function (name) {
    return path.resolve(name)
  }
})

Benchmark

It is 15-20x faster than load-plugins and gulp-load-plugins.

npm run benchmark

results as of 22 April, 2016

[charlike@voltaire load-deps]$ npm run benchmark
  load-plugins x 205 ops/sec ±3.09% (61 runs sampled)
  load-deps x 14,297 ops/sec ±10.74% (63 runs sampled)
  gulp-load-plugins x 813 ops/sec ±2.27% (62 runs sampled)

Fastest is load-deps

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
But before doing anything, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.

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