Moonscript modules

[100xCode]

I have a project where I'm trying to make custom text! and textb! functions for drawing text with shadows and drawing text in boxes. I was trying to make modules for this job, researched how to make them, and then made a test module. I then made a project trying to require! the test module, but it didn't work. Here's some code overview of the problem:

File makeup:

[bunny]
 ...
[cart]
 ...
[projects]
 ...
[tests]
 companion.tic
 fruity.tic
[tic80.com]
 ...
demo carts...

Companion:

require "fruity"
fruity.printAFruit 3
export TIC = -> --just here for the ''function TIC...' isn't found :(' error

Fruity:

printAFruit (n) = ->
 a = {"apple","pear","banana","strawberry","orange"}
 a[n]--implicit return

export TIC = →

fruity = {:printAFruit}
fruity

I tried different versions of the require! function (require "fruity", require "tests.fruity", require "/tests/fruity",require "/tests/fruity.tic",require "tests/fruity", etc.), but nothing worked. It just gave this error:

[string "moonscript.lua"]:5401:attempt to index a nil value (global `io`)

Maybe it has to do with being unable to save things as .moon and only being able to save as .tic. Also, I'm on browser.

[nesbox]

TIC doesn't support functions like require, you have to write the code in one file.

[scambier]

@100xCode there are also several bundling tools that you can integrate in your workflow: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/tools#bundling

[joshgoebel]

Closing as asked and answered by nesbox.

Worth noting this might technically be possible in Moonscript - since it's just interpreted at runtime by Lua... so you could come up with a custom build system that wrote all your source into a huge blob... and then hack moonscript to supply your own "require" function that knows how to retrieve files from your huge binary blob... but that's a bit out of scope. :-)

Your cartridge might then technically be a Lua cartridge though.