require-webpack-compat

🐒 Monkey-patches require.context into Node.js require

This is meant to simplify Universal JS apps that use Webpack and Node.js.

⚠️ Caution: NEVER use it in libraries, only for applications

Installation

npm install require-webpack-compat --save

Usage

require('require-webpack-compat')(module, require);

Afterwards, we have .context function on our require function. This allows us to do all the shenanigans we do with it in our Webpack projects.

Inside your webpack configuration, we need to add these lines

node: {
  fs: 'empty'
}

Otherwise we run into an error while generating the build.

Example

index.js

require('require-webpack-compat')(module, require);
 
var req = require.context('./', false, /\.js$/);
 
console.log(req.keys().reduce(function(obj, name) {
  var moduleName = path.basename(name).split(path.extname(name))[0];
 
  obj[moduleName] = req(name);
  return obj;
}, {}));
 
// {a: 5, b: 6}

a.js

module.exports = 5;

b.js

module.exports = 6;

See /example.

License

MIT