Uncached modules

# Isiah Meadows (6 years ago)

I'd like to have the ability to define a module that is cached per-module rather than globally on import. Maybe something like this, defined only for modules:

// Creates a new constant read-only proxy to parent `import.meta`,
// limits caching to just this one parent module.
import from parent;

As for use cases, here's a few:

  • proxyquire, which currently does an uncached require in CommonJS to gain reliable access to the parent module. If top-level await is added, they could instead do a single default export returning the namespace for the method.
  • My invoke-parallel does similar, to allow for implicit parallelism of exported methods, and I currently can't support ESM without a similar facility.

This proposal is about as simple as I can think of while still providing the minimum required functionality.


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