require()'ing a CoffeeScript file from a JavaScript file or REPL
I'm using Node.js and wanting to incorporate CoffeeScript into my workflow. I have two use-cases:
- I want to be able to write JavaScript files which
require()
CoffeeScript modules - I want to be able to load CoffeeScript modules from within the node 开发者_如何学CREPL
For case #1: I can just compile from .coffee
to .js
and require()
the .js
module, as a workaround.
For case #2: Right now I'm eval()
ing the output of coffee-script.compile()
.
Is there a better, more unified way to do this?
The coffee-script module registers its extension once required.
$ echo 'console.log "works"' > module.coffee
$ echo '
> require("coffee-script")
> require("./module")
> ' > test.js
$ node test.js
works
$ node
> require('coffee-script'); require('./module')
works
{}
Edit: This behaviour has changed with the relase of CoffeeScript 1.7.0. Now you need to do:
require('coffee-script/register');
A more versatile solution would be to use better-require.
npm install better-require
It lets you require()
CoffeeScript files, no pre-compilation needed. (It also lets you require()
a bunch of other file formats: CoffeeScript, clojurescript, yaml, xml, etc.)
In the case of CoffeeScript, it simply requires the coffee-script
module.
require('better-require')();
var myModule = require('./mymodule.coffee');
var clojurescriptModule = require('./mymodule.cljs');
// etc.
Disclosure: I wrote better-require
.
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