how to require from URL in Node.js

Question

Is there a standard way to require a Node module located at some URL (not on the local filesystem)?

Something like:

require(\'http://example.com/node         


        

Answer 1

You could overwrite the default require handler for .js files:

require.extensions['.js'] = function (module, filename) {
    // ...
}

You might want to checkout better-require as it does pretty much this for many file formats. (I wrote it)