debopamsengupta/requirey

Intelligent multi-version dependency management for npm packages

requirey's Issues

Make installs and requires stricter

Right now, it is possible to initialize requirey with an empty config like

const ry = require('requirey')();

and install any module

ry.install('react') //will install react@latest

also, it's possible to force a require call to a version like

new ry.Requirer().require('react', 'latest', true) //using the {force} param

It might be a good idea to have a strict mode where all installs and requires must follow the initial config which becomes the single source of truth

add windows support

For integrating requirey to https://github.com/opentable/oc we would need to ensure the tests run on windows too. For OC, we use appveyor, which is free for open source, and allows to run all the tests in a windows platform too. Would you be in favour of integrating something like that here too?

add License

I think we would be interested about using this in https://github.com/opentable/oc but we would need to ensure we have a compatible license for it. We go MIT for all the oc related stuff, would MIT be good for you too here? I can do a PR for that if you want

Question: install automatically skips the install if dep already installed?

The main reason I ask, is that I know npm by default, is able to perform a quicker operation during npm install if the dep is already installed.

Is requirey able to do the same?

The reason I ask, is I would like to use requirey for OC. I think the integration there will include a step, during the registry start, to install the deps, but I also think we'll develop a step to perform a install separately (as a post npm install step for your registry app) - so that the install step should just be quick and the registry able to start quicker (useful for when developing multiple instances with a docker container that already contains the installed dependencies).

Allow config to have both "module" or [modules]

We would like to use this module both for a config that supports for each module an array or a specific version (for both "classic" installs or "multi" installs).

Example:

const ry = require('requirey')({ lodash: '3.4.5' });
const ry2 = require('requirey')({ lodash: ['1.2.3', '4.5.6'] });

ry.installAll();
ry2.installAll();

const l3 = require('lodash');
const l1 = ry2.require('lodash@1');
const l4 = ry2.require('lodash@4');

If it's ok, we can make a PR