Modules

Modules in akala are not modules as in nodejs, but rather equivalent to packages. They are providing a logic seggregation between various pieces of software. Again inspired from angularjs, modules are just a kind of injectors with a life cycle :

• activate
• ready

var aModule=module('a');
aModule.register('hello', 'world')
aModule.ready(['hello'], function(a)
{
  console.log(a);
});
aModule.start(); //trigger internally the life cycle and eventually prompts 'world' to the console.

Of course, modules would not be modules without dependency injection. For that, modules internally use orchestrator (the same library as used in gulp).

var aModule=module('a');
var bModule=module('b', aModule);
var cModule=module('c', aModule);
var dModule=module('d', bModule, 'c');
aModule.register('hello', 'world')
aModule.ready(['hello'], function(a)
{
  console.log(a);
});
dModule.start(); //trigger internally the life cycle and eventually prompts 'world' to the console.

Note: modules are registered in a dedicated injector, itself registered in the default injector as $modules