How much can I stretch RequireJS to provide dependency injection for my app? As an example, let's say I have a model that I want to be a singleton. Not a singleton in a self-enforcing getInstance()-type singleton, but a context-enforced singleton (one instance per "context"). I'd like to do something like...

require(['mymodel'], function(mymodel) {
   ...
}

And have mymodel be an instance of the MyModel class. If I were to do this in multiple modules, I would want mymodel to be the same, shared instance.

I have successfully made this work by making the mymodel module like this:

define(function() {
    var MyModel = function() {
        this.value = 10;
    }
    return new MyModel();
});

Is this type of usage expected and common or am I abusing RequireJS? Is there a more appropriate way I can perform dependency injection with RequireJS? Thanks for your help. Still trying to grasp this.

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