koa-load-middlewares

Loads in any koa middlewares and attaches them to the global scope, or an object of your choice.

Inspired by gulp-load-plugins & load-grunt-tasks

Install

$ npm install --save koa-load-middlewares

Usage

Given a package.json file that has some dependencies within:

{
    "dependencies": {
        "koa-swig": "*",
        "koa-bodyparser": "*"
    }
}

Adding this into your koa server file:

var koa = require('koa');
var koaLoadMiddlewares = require('koa-load-middlewares');
var middlewares = koaLoadMiddlewares();

Or, even shorter:

var middlewares = require('koa-load-middlewares')();

Will result in the following happening (roughly, plugins are lazy loaded but in practice you won't notice any difference):

middlewares.swig = require('koa-swig');
middlewares.bodyparser = require('koa-bodyparser');

You can then use the plugins just like you would if you'd manually required them, but referring to them as middlewares.name(), rather than just name().

This frees you up from having to manually require each koa middleware.

Options

You can pass in an object of options that are shown below: (the values for the keys are the defaults):

koaLoadMiddlewares({
    pattern: ['koa-*', 'koa.*'], // the glob(s) to search for
    config: 'package.json', // where to find the plugins, by default  searched up from process.cwd() 
    scope: ['dependencies', 'devDependencies', 'peerDependencies'], // which keys in the config to look within
    replaceString: /^koa(-|\.)/, // what to remove from the name of the module when adding it to the context
    camelize: true, // if true, transforms hyphenated plugins names to camel case
    lazy: true, // whether the plugins should be lazy loaded on demand
    rename: {} // a mapping of plugins to rename
});