npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2024 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

amd-to-common

v1.1.1

Published

Convert AMD style requires to CommonJS style

Downloads

757

Readme

amd-to-common

Convert requireJS AMD style defines to requireJS commonJS style defines.

Install

npm install -g amd-to-common

Usage:

amd-to-common [file/directory/glob] [--exclude=]

Important: This /will/ rewrite your files. Please make sure they are checked in to some kind of source control before running amd-to-common.

What does it do?

RequireJS has a secondary, little known import style. When writing a module, most people use something like this:

define([
  'underscore',
], function(_){
  'use strict';

  return {
    invoke: _.noop
  };

});

However, there is a much simpler and more beautiful syntax which is resembles commonJS:

define(function(require, exports, module){
  'use strict';
  
  var _ = require('underscore');

  module.exports = {
    invoke: _.noop
  };

});

There are a few advantages to using this syntax. It removes the unweildy array and huge dependecy list construct and also gives you a much simpler task if you're planning on converting to something commonJS compliant like Browserify.

Why not use browserify-ftw?

browserify-ftw is an awesome project which aims to convert your project to browserify in basically one shot. Sometimes, especially for large webapps, this isn't ideal. On a large project, we wanted a half-way house so that we could write in CommonJS style whilst still preparing to move to browserify.

How does it work?

amd-to-common uses esprima to parse your JS files into an AST. It then analyses the content of the file, and does some really gnarly string replacements in order to rewrite to CommonJS style. Ideally, it would modify the AST and use something like escodegen to rewrite the source, but as most projects have very different spacing styles, this would probably anger a lot of people.

Is it safe?

Most likely, but I'm sure there are some edge cases. If it makes you feel better, I've used this to convert a pretty complex (~200 module) web app with ~~very few~~ no problems.