> To do that the dependency module IDs must be extracted from the module text via static analysis, but that's fairly easy since module IDs are specified to be s

> To do that the dependency module IDs must be extracted from the module text via static analysis, but that's fairly easy since module IDs are specified to be string literals. A simple regex is usually good enough, but using one of the many JavaScript parsers is safer. I did exactly this for browserify, yet another node-based browser-side require() bundling system. Another benefit of this approach is that you can use modules made for node just by require()ing them in your browser-side javascript, so long as your static analysis bundling is recursive and the modules can be `require.resolve()`'d by node.