nodejs-needs-export-sugar.md

Bored of writing "exports" and function names over and over again?

Bored of hunting for missing commas after function bodies?

Actually, I dont give a fulcrum if you are, I am fed up with this crap!

You should be able to define variables and functions as normal, and then export them to the module.exports with simple call:

  // simply one call 
  export( funcName, variName, etCetera )
  
  // declare funcName -function
  // declare var variName 
  // etc...

• Two fold problem:

1. access the arguments -object and generate an object like:

  { funcName: funcName,
    variName: variName,
    etCetera: etCetera
  }

• problems: when passing values to function as arguments, variables are expressions
• iow the arg object ends up with the value, not variable reference
• Simplest solution is to use an array of strings (at least for vars)

2. bind this object to module.exports dynamically

  function bindObjToThisExport( obj ) { 
    this.exports = ob;
  };
  
  bindObjectToThis.apply( module, theRefsObject )

Solution model - Pseudocode - (Untested)

function exportsToContext() {
  var alen = arguments
  for (var a = 0; a < alen; a++) {
    this.exports[el] = arguments[a]);
  });
}
 
var foo = 1, bar = 2, zoo = function() { return "z" };
   
function export( argArr ) {
  exportsToContext.apply( module, [this].join( argArr) );
}