require-from-twitter

README.md

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');
console.log(leftPad(1, 5));      // '00001'
console.log(leftPad(1234, 5));   // '01234'
console.log(leftPad(12345, 5));  // '12345'

Running this example

# populate `twitter-config.json` with your API tokens
$ npm install
$ npm test

index.js

import { babel } from './package';
import { transform } from 'babel-core';
import { decodeHTML as decode } from 'entities';
import Twit from 'twit';

// edit twitter-config.json first
const twit = new Twit(require('./twitter-config'));

export default async function requireFromTwitter (id) {
  const tweet = await twit.get(`/statuses/show/:id`, { id });
  if (tweet.errors) throw new Error(`Cannot find module '${id}'`);
  const { text } = tweet.data;
  const exports = {};
  eval(transform(decode(text), babel).code);
  return exports.default;
}

package.json

{
  "name": "require-from-twitter",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "require(), but from a tweet",
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "6.5.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "6.6.0",
    "babel-runtime": "6.6.1",
    "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "6.6.0",
    "babel-cli": "6.6.5",
    "babel-core": "6.7.4",
    "twit": "2.2.3",
    "entities": "1.1.1"
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "es2015",
      "stage-0"
    ],
    "plugins": [
      "transform-runtime"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "babel-node test"
  }
}

test.js

import requireFromTwitter from './';

requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264')
.then((leftPad) => {
  console.log(leftPad(1, 5));
  console.log(leftPad(1234, 5));
  console.log(leftPad(12345, 5));
}, (err) => console.error(err.stack));

twitter-config.json

{
  "consumer_key": "",
  "consumer_secret": "",
  "access_token": "",
  "access_token_secret": ""
}

So.... basically like 25-50% of sindresorhus' modules can use this, no problem. Right?

This will never make it in Enterprise™! We'll have import-all-from-linkedin instead.

Elon Musk: