[anthonyshort]

You could also just export from each of the requires in that manifest.js file you have there.

Although there's no real benefit of doing that over using the manifest other than it's kinda cool :)

[aymericbeaumet]

A one could indeed export its requires. However, my idea was was to stay close to the require caching system existing in Node.

As a personal taste, I by far prefer to configure my application in a JavaScript file rather than a JSON file. And I consider dependencies as a part of the configuration process. It agrees with the Duo philosophy which aims to simplify the building process from A to Z.