[glasser]

This is under active development on the linker branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/linker ! The goal, hopefully coming in one of the next few releases, is to provide package-scoped variables and explicit exports from packages, so that you don't need to rely on globals at all any more.

[bmcmahen]

I'm happy to hear this. One of the primary problems with client-side development right now is the lack of commonjs style imports and exports -- something which people are trying to solve using component, etc. It'd be nice if Meteor had something baked in.