Running a node.js app that has various components that are required in the main index.js file, like this:

// index.js

require('./component-1.js')
require('./component-2.js')
require('./component-3.js')
// ...etc.

yield App.init()

Basically, by requireing those components, they attach themselves to the App, and I can reference component-1 inside of component-2.

The problem is that component-2 does a lot of tasks that take a lot of time to complete (minutes to hours). So, I want to move component-2 to a separate worker. With Heroku I would do this in the Procfile (telling it to spin up a separate dyno):

# Procfile
worker: node ./component-2.js

Problem: component-2 depends on component-1 having been registered with the App. Therefore if I want to run component-2 as a worker, I'll have to register component-1 inside the worker as well.

One solution I tried was to basically spin up a "mini app" inside the separate worker:

// workers/worker.js

require('component-1')
require('component-2')

yield App.start()

Then do worker: node workers/worker.js inside my Procfile, but now any time I want to extract a component into a worker, I have to track down every single other component it depends on, and move them into the "mini app".

Any other good solutions for this?

Edit

To clarify, both the main App and component-2 depend on component-1, but App doesn't care about component-2.