A provider for a "directive builder". Inject this provider into a directive declaration and return its invocation and it will build a directive definition object. I got this idea from angular-ui-bootstrap's code here: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/src/tooltip/tooltip.js#L12

directivebuilder.js

module.exports = function () {

    this.$get = [function () {


        return function directiveBuilder(config) {
            var options = config || {};
            return {
                replace: true,
                restrict: "E",
                template: "<div></div>",
                //template:function(telem,tattrs){return "<div></div>";}
                //templateUrl:'/url/to/template',
                //transclude:true,false,element
                //scope:true,false,{}
                //controllerAs
                //require:'othercontroller' | ['multiple','controllers'],'^parent'
                controller: ["$scope", function ($scope) {

                }],
                compile:function(tElem, attrs){
                    return {
                        post:function postLink(scope, iElement, iAttrs, controller){},
                        pre:function preLink(scope, iElement, iAttrs, controller){
                            /**
                             * useful if you want to operate on the scope BEFORE your children compile.
                             * If this directive has child directives inside of it
                             * and it wants to set a property on the scope for them to see, it needs to do that in prelink.
                             * */
                        }
                    };
                }
            };
        };
    }];
};

example.js

var directiveBuilder = require('./directivebuilder');

angular.module('gistmodule',[])
       .provider('directivebuilder',directiveBuilder)
       .directive('myDirective',['directivebuilder',function(directivebuilder){
            return directivebuilder({option1:'',option2:''});
       }])
       .directive('myOtherSimilarDirective',['directivebuilder',function(directivebuilder){
            return directivebuilder({option1:'',option2:''});
       }])
       ;

//template

<my-directive></my-directive>
<my-other-similar-directive></my-other-similar-directive>