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rvagg:

I don't feel strongly either way about this. I'm not a strict minimalist but like Dominic I tend to use batch() programatically so a chaining API is less helpful (but I may use it).

What we really need is a proper plugin system for Node so a project like LevelUP can load optional plugins that may be installed in the NODE_MODULES path(s) and do things like expose the main LevelUP.prototype to plugins that may want to augment it. Then we could say something on our README like: "If you npm install levelup-batch, LevelUP will make the chaining batch() API available. And levelup-batch can monkey-patch LevelUP.prototype.batch to provide chaining.

I need something like this for Ender too so maybe I'll actually build a generic plugin helper system some day..

rvagg:

Re plugins, Grunt and DocPad do something similar already but certainly not in a modular way that you can pull out and re-use, we need something that smaller projects like LevelUP can easily include. We should collaborate on it so we get the API right!