How do you write reusable packages?

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

Don't miss this trick from Shaun

A list of helpful libraries and code

This is really unintuitive but import already returns the return value of the imported script, but-but imports only work at the beginning of a line, but-but-but, since Lua doesn't really care about whitespace, you can write it like this: local __ = import 'underscore' __.each({1, 2, 3}, print) __({1, 2, 3}):each(print) Both examples now work as expected with an unmodified underscore.lua using this method.

And Nino's custom import trick

Gravity Express

Ditching the import statement to improve boot times As per the docs, the import statement is a function available in the Playdate SDK that is not part of standard Lua. Conversely, the require statement is in every Lua distribution except for Playdate. The import statements are not run by the playdate, but instead by the pdc compiler. import "otherfile" basically means: read otherfile.lua and paste everything you find there at the current position in the current file. This way, you as developer c…