DI+KISS

DISS is simple and convinient dependency injector for node.js. It usees similar pattern to AngularJS dependency injector.

Usage

Provider/factory/forge pattern

To use DISS you should use a provider pattern for your code.

Instead of:

var d1 = require('d1'),
    d2 = require('d2');

module.exports = {
    method: m1
}    

Use:

module.exports = function( d1, d2 ) {
    return {
        method: m1
    }
}

Quick start

main.js

var diss = require('diss')(),
    pkg = require('./package.json');
    
// automaticly load all dependencies defined in package.json and register them under their own names    
diss.loadDependencies(pkg);  

// load providers from files and register them under same names: 
diss.loadProviders(['cfg', 'logger', 'worker', 'rest']);

// register pkg as 'pkg', so it can be used by our modules
diss.register.module('pkg',pkg);

// start actual application.
diss.resolve(function(rest) {
   rest.startServer(); 
});

API

require('diss') gives you a injector provider. Call it to get an instance of incejctor. Register all your dependencies and call it's resolve on your main application provider.

resolve(provider)

• provider: provider to resolve.

Takes a provider, examines it's signature using reflection and injects all it's depencencies. If any of said dependencies are providers themselves, it will resolve their dependencies recursively.

diss.resolve(function(mysql, logger, http) {
    // [...] 
});

require(name,[main])

• name: string representing a name of module to load and register.
• main: module to call require from. Defaults to require.main, which is the entry pointof application.

A convinience method, shortcut to:

diss.register.module('name', require('name') );
diss.register.module('name', main.require('name') );

loadDepencencies(pkg,[main])

• pkg: object representing package.json, ie. require('package.json')
• main: module to call require from. Defaults to require.main, which is the entry pointof application.

A convinience method, equivalent to iterating over all dependencies listed in package.json and calling diss.require on all of them.

diss.loadDependencies(require('package.json'));

loadProviders(providers, [main], [directory])

• providers: array of string names of your providers.
• main: module to call require from. Defaults to require.main, which is the entry pointof application.
• directory: directory to load from. Defaults to current directory.

A convinience method, equivalent to call of diss.register.provider on all supplied files.

diss.loadProviders(['mod1','mod2','mod3','foo/mod4'])
diss.loadProviders(['bar/a','bar/b'],module,'./src/examlpe');

is equivalent to:

diss.register.provider('mod1', require('./mod1'));
diss.register.provider('mod2', require('./mod2'));
diss.register.provider('mod3', require('./mod3'));
diss.register.provider('fooMod4', require('./foo/mod3'));
diss.register.provider('barA', require('./src/example/bar/a'));
diss.register.provider('barB', require('./src/example/bar/b'));

register.module(name, module)

• name: string containing name to register.
• module: object to register under that sting.

Module is a object provied as-is to providers when resolving them. Use modules for non-DI dependencies, ie:

diss.register.module('Promise', require('bluebird') );
///[...]
diss.resolve(function( Promise ) {
    // Promise contains bluebird module
});

register.provider(name, provider)

• name: string containing name to register.
• provider: provider to register.

Provider is a function that has dependencies as parameters and returns an object, which is passed as dependency to other providers.

diss.register.provider('myLogger', function(genericLogger, pkg) {
    return genericLogger.createInstance({
        name: pkg.name,
        level: 'info'
    });
});

diss.resolve(function( myLogger ) {
    // myLogger here will be the result of .createInstance
});

Auto-generated names

When names are auto-generated using convinience methods, they are based on passed name and camelcased: some-module becomes someModule in dependencies.