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Fighting back against node's over-modularity

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s/node/Sindre/

node and the npm ecosystem have a healthy amount of modularity. Sindre Sorhus releases modules for single regexes[1].

Note this:

    acc[camelcase(dependency)] = require(dependency);

could be replaced with:

    Object.defineProperty(acc,camelcase(dependency),{get:function(){ return require(dependency) }})

and you'd get demand-loading!

And you'd be hiding the blocking on the require call, the primary reason why on-demand loading is an anti-pattern in node.

Composition: easier than decomposition. :)