browserify/wzrd.in

Package multiple modules together

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#57 opened on Dec 21, 2013

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Description

Would be nice if we could do something like:

//wzrd.in/bundle/query-engine@1.5.7/backbone@1.1.0

Which would permanently redirect to the alphabetically sorted URL:

//wzrd.in/bundle/backbone@1.1.0/query-engine@1.5.7

Which would then serve the combined package of those two modules, as if we did:

browserify -r backbone -r query-engine

This would be amazingly cool, as it would reduce duplication of modules that are included in separate packages, instead, all modules only get bundled once.

It'll also get super super cool when jQuery v2.1 is officially out with npm support. That way we could then do things like:

//wzrd.in/bundle/jquery@2.1.0/miniview@1.2.0/pointers@1.1.3

Of which, miniview and pointers both include this line in their source:

$ = @$ or window?.$ or (try require?('jquery'))

Allowing us to finally have a world where global dependencies are abolished!

Implementation wise, this seems like a nicer API for the POST /multi functionality: https://github.com/jesusabdullah/browserify-cdn#post-multi

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javascriptnodejsrest api
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backendapitooling
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Research direction
This feature request suggests extending the existing POST /multi endpoint to support GET requests with multiple modules in the URL. To implement, one would need to parse the URL path, extract module names with versions, sort alphabetically, construct a bundle using browserify's r flags for each module, and issue a permanent redirect to the sorted URL. The implementation should consider caching and error handling. The existing codebase is in the repository at https://github.com/browserify/wzrd.in, specifically the routing and bundling logic. Look at the 'POST /multi' handler as a starting point.