there are lots of places that the installed modules could turn up. the best might be to use npm ls (or link to npm), that will find you all the dirs, and the have plugin authors add a field to their package.json that indicates it is a plugin.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote: > I need a plug-in system for my app and I'd like for my user to be able to > install a plug-in by just doing the standard `npm install foo` where foo is > the name of the module. When my app starts I want to find all plugins for > my app and "require" them without knowing their names. > > I'm thinking that any and all modules with a name matching *_myapp_plugin > (I don't know my app's name yet) would be loaded (required). The user of > my app would then be able to enable/disable these plugins through the UI. > > I considered walking the dir tree looking for node_module folders, but > then I started thinking about all the complications. Maybe I should steal > code from node require. Of course if node allowed wild cards in the > require function that would be ideal. > > I'd be happy to make this plug-in system a module. Node doesn't have > enough modules yet. > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
