A rule for injecting libraries

[jiwonz]

inject_modules rule would be great for injecting libraries and global functions too (exampe: injecting libraries of luau written in pure lua to emulate luau outside of luau)

Example

.darklua.json5

rules: {
  inject_libraries: {
    libraries: [
      {
        name: "buffer",
        path: "buffer.lua"
      },
      {
        name: "typeof",
        path: "typeof.lua"
      }
    ]
  }
}

src/main.lua

print(typeof(buffer.create))

After processing:

local buffer = require("{top_path}/_DARKLUA_lib{buffer_blake3_hash}")
local typeof = require("{top_path}/_DARKLUA_lib{typeof_blake3_hash}")
print(typeof(buffer.create))

[nightcycle]

Completely agree! I had to do this just yesterday with a bash script in order to get the task library added to code that I deploy in both lune and roblox.

[ewd3v]

Bump this, would be amazing to have libraries that you can just access as globals without having to constantly import them! (Also great for compatbility libraries as op said.)

[ewd3v]

Perhaps this could have an option for code to run to import specific libraries? An example would be importing "task" as require("@lune/task") to reduce the overhead of creating a file that returns the same thing.

So like:

{
    name: "task",
    code: 'require("@lune/task")'
}

(Unsure what to call the field, maybe "custom"?)