How could I make runtime handling for you easier?

[kirbysayshi]

I noticed you're manually requiring the runtime in the module template. This is pretty ingenious! Do you have suggestions for how to make it easier? At the same time, if you're figured out something that works, I'm inclined to leave it.

P.S. This project is awesome!

[chevett]

Awesome! Thanks!! I'm using vash more and more... I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more yet. It's super nice!

Anyway, I was originally expecting something like require('vash/runtime') to work and I've seen similar conventions in other projects. So, I'd happily take require('vash/runtime') if you can make that work.

FYI, I think ideally I want vashify to have vash as a peer dependency, so that the same vash version could be used on the server and in the browserify bundles. However, I haven't gotten that far yet. Thanks again!

[kirbysayshi]

peerDependency sounds great, I see no problems there.

vash/runtime can't work quite yet because right now vash uses a custom build step (concatenation + adding some UMD guards), and thus individual components of vash can't be required from outside. I've been toying with converting vash's parts to use CJS for a while, but haven't tried in ernest.

There's also the issue of allowing helpers to be included... right now vash assumes you're adding them to the vash.helpers object, which definitely won't work too well in a browserify environment as is. A helper would have to require('vash/build/vash-runtime-all') and attach stuff to that.

I'm hoping that eventually a helper would require('vash-runtime') and attach stuff to that. But that means splitting out the runtime from the main project, or at least multiple npm deploy targets.

[chevett]

Oh I see, vash-runtime sound good to me. As for helpers, I would really like to get them working here and that is my next priority. I'll poke around the vash source and let this marinate a bit.

require('vash-runtime').helpers.myHelper = function(){...} from within a browserify module would be awesome. I think that would let me do everything I'm looking for.

I'm going to try a couple of things and I'll come back with a more intelligent response! I'll be in touch. Thanks!