I want to create one global module file, and then have all my files require that global module file. Inside that file, I would load all the modules once and export a dictionary of loaded modules.

How can I do that?

I actually tried creating this file...and every time I require('global_modules'), all the modules kept reloading. It's O(n).

I want the file to be something like this (but it doesn't work):

//global_modules.js - only load these one time
var modules = {
    account_controller: '/account/controller.js',
    account_middleware: '/account/middleware.js',
    products_controller: '/products/controller.js',
    ...
}
exports.modules = modules;