On June 11, 2013 at 4:59:50 PM, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: I'm reading JavaScript on the Server Using Node.js and Express. Having just read the chapter on modules, it seems overly restrictive to make require() refer only to files. It seems to me that a hosted module server could be really useful in some applications. Would this be a node.js issue or confined to JavaScript?
That's a node.js issue -- but it's one that's not easy to solve without making the simple cases harder. Remote modules implies asynchronous loading, which doesn't play nicely with the elegance of require. It's so often better to separate data from code, and while data is loaded asynchronously, let code be synchronous. Then you can handle the remote loading case by downloading first (and automating this), then executing. ---- Aria Stewart -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
