Is there a way to include file in coffee script?

Question

I\'d like to know if there is a way to include a file in a coffee script. Something like #include in C or require in PHP...

Answer 1

If you use coffeescript with node.js (e.g. when using the commandline tool coffee) then you can use node's require() function exactly as you would for a JS-file.

Say you want to include included-file.coffee in main.coffee:

In included-file.coffee: declare and export objects you want to export

someVar = ...
exports.someVar = someVar

In main.coffee you can then say:

someVar = require('included-file.coffee').someVar

This gives you clean modularization and avoids namespace conflicts when including external code.