req2 is an enhanced replacement for 'require' in Node.js. It's also really handy in CoffeeScript.

I always wanted to be able to require multiple modules via destructuring assignment so as to keep things smaller and tidyer. I also figured that require should be able to read in the text from a file too. That bit is synchronous right now, but later on I may have it detect pairs of files and callbacks.

$ npm install req2

• Works as normal.

    //JavaScript
    var module = require('req2')('module');
  
    #CoffeeScript:
    module = require('req2')('module')
    #or
    module = require('req2') 'module'
  

• Require multiple modules (as either mutiple arguments or as an array), returned in an array.

    //JavaScript
    var modules = require('req2')('module0','module1');
    var module0 = modules[0];
    var module1 = modules[1];
    //or
    var modules = require('req2')(['module0','module1']);
    var module0 = modules[0];
    var module1 = modules[1];
    
    #CoffeeScript
    [module0,module1] = require('req2') 'module0','module1'
    #or
    [module0,module1] = require('req2') ['module0','module1']
  

• Open files (with fs.readFileSync).

    //JavaScript
    var file = require('req2')('./file.txt');
    
    #CoffeeScript:
    file = require('req2') './file.txt'
  

• Async file reads.
• HTTP
• Automatically installing packages via npm? (Not sure if I want to do this one.)

See LICENSE.txt