Can I run a .coffee file directly from node.js?

Question

I'm doing some tutorials and I'm writing everything in CoffeeScript. I then have to compile to JS then execute in node.js. Is there any way to do it directly?

Answer 1

Yes you can.

coffee source.coffee -n 

It will run Node directly without generating any .js files.

Reference

Update: Coffee now also supports --nodejs. The above does the same as

coffee source.coffee --nodejs 

But yeah, -n is way shorter.