Currently the request method will dynamically load the default provider, depending on if you are running in node or the browser. This adds some complexity to the code and probably isn’t even needed.

We’re looking for a usage like this,

import request from 'dojo-core/request';
// import node support manually if we want to use it
import nodeProvider from 'dojo-core/request/node';
// set the default provider some how
request.setDefaultProvider(nodeProvider);
// the next request will go to node
request.get(...);

• Remove the dynamic loading from ProviderRegistry and just assume that defaultValue is already a provider, not a string.
• Add a method to set the default provider, so it can be injected.
• Create a convenience method to inject request/node as the default provider for people running in Node.

You can see a rough implementation (as well as some unrelated changes...) here,

master...rorticus:no-streams