diff --git a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/init.tl b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/init.tl
index 5349d74..586a64b 100644
--- a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/init.tl
+++ b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/init.tl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 return {
    global_env_def = require "generator.global_env_def",
-   teal_type_definitions = require "generator.teal_type_definitions",
+   module_init_definition = require "generator.module_init_definition",
    snippets = require "generator.snippets",
+   teal_type_definitions = require "generator.teal_type_definitions",
 }
diff --git a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/module_init_definition.tl b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/module_init_definition.tl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20d8ed4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/generator/module_init_definition.tl
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+local Map = require "pl.Map"
+local template = require "pl.template"
+local utils = require "utils"
+local snippets = require "generator.snippets"
+
+-- The long therm goal is to have so many `snippets.render_*` functions that
+-- we can render the whole file with the smallest template possible.
+local tmpl = [[
+-- Auto generated file (Do not manually edit this file!)
+
+return {
+# for name, path in requires:iter() do
+   $(name) = require "$(path)",
+# end -- /for
+}
+]]
+
+local module = {}
+
+function module.generate_teal(requires: Map<string, string>): string
+   local tmpl_args = {
+      ipairs = ipairs,
+      requires = requires,
+      snippets = snippets,
+   }
+   return utils.do_or_fail(template.substitute, tmpl, tmpl_args)
+
+end
+
+return module
+
diff --git a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/init.tl b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/init.tl
index 9c80692..b508aab 100644
--- a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/init.tl
+++ b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/init.tl
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ local filesystem = require "filesystem"
 local generator = require "generator"
 local List = require "pl.List"
 local logger = require "logger"
+local Map = require "pl.Map"
 local Module_Doc = require "entity.Module_Doc"
 local Module_Info = require "entity.Module_Info"
 local property = require "property"
 local scraper = require "scraper"
+local stringx = require "pl.stringx"
 local utils = require "utils"
 
 local log = logger.log("main")
@@ -35,6 +37,34 @@ local function module_lists(
    return all_module_infos, module_infos, global_module_infos
 end
 
+-- The module's children list produced can contain duplicates.
+-- We ignore them for now because they are dismissed when building a Map for the generator.
+local function modules_tree(modules: List<Module_Info.Module_Info>): Map<string, List<string>>
+   local tree: Map<string, List<string>> = Map()
+   for module in modules:iter() do
+      local parent = module.name:gmatch("(.*)%.(.*)$")()
+      if parent then
+         local ancestors = stringx.split(parent, ".")
+         for i = 1, #ancestors - 1 do
+            local ancestor = ancestors:slice(1, i):join(".")
+            if not tree:get(ancestor) then
+               tree:set(ancestor, List())
+            end
+            if not tree:get(ancestor):contains(parent) then
+               tree:get(ancestor):append(parent)
+            end
+         end
+         local parent_node = tree:get(parent)
+         if not parent_node then
+            tree:set(parent, List())
+            parent_node = tree:get(parent)
+         end
+         parent_node:append(module.name)
+      end
+   end
+   return tree
+end
+
 local function do_one_file(
    url: string,
    record_name: string,
@@ -55,6 +85,7 @@ local all_module_infos, module_infos, global_module_infos = module_lists(
    List(property.capi_modules),
    List(property.ignored_modules)
 )
+local tree = modules_tree(module_infos)
 
 log:info(
    logger.message_with_metadata(
@@ -62,7 +93,8 @@ log:info(
       {
          total_module_count = #all_module_infos,
          module_count = #module_infos,
-         global_module_count = #global_module_infos
+         global_module_count = #global_module_infos,
+         tree_items = tree:len(),
       }
    )
 )
@@ -95,3 +127,16 @@ filesystem.file_writer.write(
    generator.global_env_def.generate_teal(global_env_def),
    property.out_directory .. "/global_env.d.tl"
 )
+
+for module, children in tree:iter() do
+   -- TODO : this map should be coupled with the all_module_infos list
+   local requires: Map<string, string> = Map()
+   for child in children:iter() do
+      local name = child:gmatch(".*%.(.*)$")()
+      requires:set(name, child)
+   end
+   filesystem.file_writer.write(
+      generator.module_init_definition.generate_teal(requires),
+      property.out_directory .. "/" .. stringx.split(module, "."):slice(1, -1):join("/") .. "/init.d.tl"
+   )
+end