lua-loader

Manage your Lua modules with npm

Usage

0. npm

Download and install Node.js. Then you have npm

1. Install

In the root of your project, npm install lua-loader

2. Initialise

In the main lua file in your project:

require("node_modules.lua-loader.init")

Now require() knows all the new tricks.

3. Have fun

Require modules

Install the lua npm package you want to use in your project, eg. npm install lua-events. This will install the package as expected in ./node_modules/lua-events. You can now just:

local EventEmitter = require("lua-events").EventEmitter

And then just use the module for what it's useful for, eg:

local myObj = EventEmitter:new({text = "Hello, world!"})
function myObj:talk ()
  self:emit("spoken", self.text)
end
myObj:on("spoken", function (text)
  print("myObj said", text)
end)
myObj:talk()

Require source files

Suppose the following directory structue:

project-root
├── init.lua
├─┬ lib
│ └── foo.lua
└─┬ tests
  ├── init.lua
  └── test-1.lua

• From init.lua you can load lib/foo.lua with:

require("./lib/foo")

• From tests/init.lua you can load tests/test-1.lua with:

require("./test-1")

• From tests/init.lua you can load lib/foo.lua with:

require("../lib/foo")

Limitations

• Doesn't read the package.json. So won't respect the main entry in there. Tries to load ./init.lua or else ./<package name>.lua and that's it.

##Tests npm test lua-loader

License

LGPL+