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

How about coffeescript-concat?

coffeescript-concat is a utility that preprocesses and concatenates CoffeeScript source files.

It makes it easy to keep your CoffeeScript code in separate units and still run them easily. You can keep your source logically separated without the frustration of putting it all together to run or embed in a web page. Additionally, coffeescript-concat will give you a single sourcefile that will easily compile to a single Javascript file.

Answer 2

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.