Modules

At this point you know how the most important built-in libraries in Lune work and how to use them, and your code is probably getting longer and more difficult to read. Splitting your code into multiple files can help you stay organized.

Modularizing your code and splitting it across several files in Lune is different from other versions of Lua and Luau, and more similar to how things work in other languages such as JavaScript.

Example File Tree

Let's use this directory & file tree structure for our examples:

local sibling = require("sibling")
local modules = require("modules")
 
print(sibling.Hello) --> World
 
print(modules.Module.Foo) --> Bar
print(modules.Module.Fizz) --> Buzz
 
print(modules.Sibling.Hello) --> World

File Require Statements

Let's decipher these files and what they are doing:

• The main script requires sibling and modules next to it
• The modules/init script requires module next to it, and sibling going up one directory using ../

In the above require statements, we can see that are relative to the file that they are in, and in Lune this is always the case, except for built-in libraries, which always start with an at sign (@).