This may go some ways to solving the issue (mostly with asynchronous module loading) - https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/9967c369c9272335bb0343558673b689725

This may go some ways to solving the issue (mostly with asynchronous module loading) - https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/9967c369c9272335bb0343558673b689725c6d7c https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/9967c369c9272335bb0343... Like you say, I don't see any issues with the current system (and don't like wrapping everything manually in define function). You'll always need to get a server involved at some point for concatenation and performance reasons - and I think the current system works fine.