How to "scope" definition file?

[Deewarz]

Hello :)

I have 3 definition files in my workspace :

• shared.d.lua
• client.d.lua (which should extends shared)
• server.d.lua (which should extends shared)

I have 2 folders at root : /client and /server

Is it possible to make client and shared definitions only available in the client folder ? (and same for the server folder)

Thanks

[tomlau10]

I think it is impossible in a single workspace.

However LuaLS supports multi-root workspace: https://luals.github.io/wiki/developing/#multiple-workspace-support

• You can add /client and /server as separate sub workspaces in your root workspace
• and then setup independent .luarc.json for each of them, with the correct workspace.library settings
• also in the root workspace, use workspace.ignoreDir to ignore both client/ and server/ to avoid luals preloading all the files in the root workspace
  (to reduce memory usage, otherwise root workspace will preload both client/ and server/ files => duplicated)
  edit: seems I thought too much 😂 this is not needed as LuaLS can already handle this case and will not preload duplicated copies of the same file

Demo:

• you can see that inside /client workspace, there is no Server class
• while in /server workspace, there is no Client class
• and both of them can recognize the ShareGlobal table, because both workspaces included the shared.d.lua as library

[Deewarz]

Thank you very much for this super detailed answer!

Too bad it doesn't work with a single workspace... well, let's go for the workaround!

[tomlau10]

When using multi-root workspace and mounted subfolder(s) as a root, I just found out that you can also hide that subfolder in the main workspace 👀 : microsoft/vscode#82145 (comment)

• create a .vscode/settings.json in your project root

{
    "files.exclude": {
        "server/": true,
        "client/": true,
    }
}

• then these 2 folders will be hidden in the root workspace (to avoid confusion)