Remote script execution is not worth the hazards it introduces. We could, in theory, provide some synchronous TCP/HTTP interfaces, but it would be extremely difficult to do well, and very hazardous to ever use in production.
And for what? A feature that is a security vulnerability waiting to happen? Introducing all the problems that browsers have with script tags? No thanks. Fetch the file. Then run the program locally. It's not so much of a restriction, really. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Aria Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- -- 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.
