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?

Solution

Yes it is possible.

user.coffee:

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

main.coffee:

{UserObj} = require "./user"

User = new UserObj "Example"

Comments

[Thomas Welton]

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

[Nikita Volkov]

@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]

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

[thetrompf]

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'