Question

I have a javascript lib, basically this is how it is structured so far:

var Ns = (function(){
  var that = {};

  // add stuff to 'that'

  return that;
})();

//use Ns.foo() and Ns.bar()

The thing is that now, I wanted the same lib to be available with node and npm. So far this is what I could come up with:

this.Ns = (function(){ //same as previous snippet })()

//use Ns.foo() and Ns.bar()

The problem is that, while this works in the browser, in node I need to do this:

var Ns = require('ns').Ns

Problem: I’d love to be able to do var Ns = require('ns') but in order to do that I have to export this.foo and this.bar which will break the browser inclusion. Ideas?

Answer 1

// create local scope.
(function () {

  var myModule = ...

  // check for node module loader
  if (typeof module !== "undefined" && typeof require !== "undefined") {
    module.exports = myModule;
  } else {
    window["name"] = myModule;
  }

})();