I don't see why you'd jump through so many hoops just to avoid an upfont
compilation step. `require.extensions` may be deprecated in the future and
is generally frowned upon.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Krzysztof Baranowski
<pharcos...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Found something sort of close to an aswer: Up lets you specify an
> "options.requires" array that gets passed to the child process so you can
> tell it to require any modules you want before running. Trouble is, they
> get required AFTER it tries to load your program (with require), which
> means coffeescript support won't be available to load your program from a
> .coffee file directly.
>
> My temporary solution is to just not use Up, may revisit this question in
> the future. Thanks for the responses.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:12:04 AM UTC-4, Krzysztof Baranowski wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> So I have an app where all the files are coffeescript. To avoid a js
>> compilation step or having to run a watcher I have a
>> "require('coffee-script')" statement before everything else in the program,
>> which lets me require() coffee files directly from other coffee files.
>>
>> Problem is, one of the libraries I'm using requires 
>> up<https://github.com/LearnBoost/up> which
>> spawns child processes with fork(). These processes in turn try to
>> require() my app files, which are in coffeescript, and fail.
>>
>> So I'd like a way to ensure that process spawn with coffeescript
>> available to avoid this. Or maybe I could monkey patch Up or something.
>>
>> Into your capable hands I commit my question, nodejs community!
>> Chris
>>
>
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:12:04 AM UTC-4, Krzysztof Baranowski wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> So I have an app where all the files are coffeescript. To avoid a js
>> compilation step or having to run a watcher I have a
>> "require('coffee-script')" statement before everything else in the program,
>> which lets me require() coffee files directly from other coffee files.
>>
>> Problem is, one of the libraries I'm using requires 
>> up<https://github.com/LearnBoost/up> which
>> spawns child processes with fork(). These processes in turn try to
>> require() my app files, which are in coffeescript, and fail.
>>
>> So I'd like a way to ensure that process spawn with coffeescript
>> available to avoid this. Or maybe I could monkey patch Up or something.
>>
>> Into your capable hands I commit my question, nodejs community!
>> Chris
>>
>
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:12:04 AM UTC-4, Krzysztof Baranowski wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> So I have an app where all the files are coffeescript. To avoid a js
>> compilation step or having to run a watcher I have a
>> "require('coffee-script')" statement before everything else in the program,
>> which lets me require() coffee files directly from other coffee files.
>>
>> Problem is, one of the libraries I'm using requires 
>> up<https://github.com/LearnBoost/up> which
>> spawns child processes with fork(). These processes in turn try to
>> require() my app files, which are in coffeescript, and fail.
>>
>> So I'd like a way to ensure that process spawn with coffeescript
>> available to avoid this. Or maybe I could monkey patch Up or something.
>>
>> Into your capable hands I commit my question, nodejs community!
>> Chris
>>
>
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:12:04 AM UTC-4, Krzysztof Baranowski wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> So I have an app where all the files are coffeescript. To avoid a js
>> compilation step or having to run a watcher I have a
>> "require('coffee-script')" statement before everything else in the program,
>> which lets me require() coffee files directly from other coffee files.
>>
>> Problem is, one of the libraries I'm using requires 
>> up<https://github.com/LearnBoost/up> which
>> spawns child processes with fork(). These processes in turn try to
>> require() my app files, which are in coffeescript, and fail.
>>
>> So I'd like a way to ensure that process spawn with coffeescript
>> available to avoid this. Or maybe I could monkey patch Up or something.
>>
>> Into your capable hands I commit my question, nodejs community!
>> Chris
>>
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