Requiring CoffeeScript file from within another CoffeeScript file with nodejs

Question

I was wondering if you are able to require a coffeescript from within another coffeescript.

My example code from file "user.coffee"

class UserObj
    constructor: (@name) ->
        console.log @name

My example code from main file

require "./user.coffee"

User = new UserObj "Example"

Is this possible from within a coffeescript file or just a js file?

possible duplicate of require()'ing a CoffeeScript file from a JavaScript file or REPL — Trevor Burnham
– Trevor Burnham, Commented Mar 30, 2012 at 13:00

Nikita Volkov · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-30 08:54:24Z

8

Yes it is possible.

user.coffee:

exports.UserObj = 
class UserObj
    constructor: (@name) ->
        console.log @name

main.coffee:

{UserObj} = require "./user"

User = new UserObj "Example"

answered Mar 30, 2012 at 8:54

Nikita Volkov

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4 Comments

Thomas Welton Over a year ago

But this is just for Node right? I thought CoffeeScript may have pull together the required files on compilation of main.js

Nikita Volkov Over a year ago

@ThomasWelton That's just for Node. Currently CoffeeScript compiler is just a file-to-file transcompiler, it doesn't do any project structure analysis and because of that no aggregation. There may be other tools approaching the issue. I even remember writing one myself.

Thomas Welton Over a year ago

Thanks. I later went on to use requirejs which I'm very happy with for loading coffeescript modules and classes.

thetrompf Over a year ago

If you are using a single class per file, then I would prefer module.exports = UserObj, now the prototype is exposed out of the file, and the {UserObj} = require './user' isn't necessary. The loading of the constructor would simply be: UserObj = require './user'

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