Ever since Meteor 1.3 first introduced a module system based on something
other than `Npm.require`, we've continued throwing missing module
exceptions that refer to `Npm.depends` and/or `Npm.require`, even if the
developer called `require` or used an `import` declaration. This commit
fixes that, so that all missing module exceptions look like 'Cannot find
module "module/name"'.
I also noticed recently that `Npm.require` is capable of returning modules
installed in `node_modules` directories completely outside the app, which
is bad news for development/production reproducibility. Fixed that too.
CC @hwillson who has spoken of deprecating `Npm.require` entirely, and
just using `require` everywhere, instead.
Something went wrong with 1.5-rc.2 such that publishing meteor-tool failed
with the following error on all platforms:
While publishing package build for meteor-tool:
error: Cannot override existing build
This makes no sense to me, but it necessitates another RC release. To be
clear, meteor-tool@1.5.0-rc.2 has not been successfully published on any
platform, so please don't bother trying to update to it.
Now anyone can define meteorInstall.fetch however they see fit, and the
install.js implementation will handle everything else.
This separation of concerns leads to significantly less code, too.
As proposed here: https://github.com/rollup/rollup/wiki/pkg.module
By supporting ECMAScript module entry points for npm packages in Meteor
1.5, we will be well-positioned to do more effective import/export-based
tree shaking in future versions of Meteor.
We can't do the same thing on the server because we can't change how
native Node resolves package entry points based on the "main" field of the
package.json module.
On the other hand, all npm packages have to work in Node using the "main"
field, and client bundles stand to benefit the most from tree shaking, so
this client/server difference should not be problematic.
Note that the "jsnext:main" property is also supported as a legacy synonym
for "module".
Generally, module.prefetch(id) will not throw even if the fetched module
is missing. If you need to know whether module.prefetch(id) succeeded,
simply await the result of the promise, which will be null on success, or
an Error object if the module could not be imported.
