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#  Modding Library (`modlib`)
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Multipurpose Minetest Modding Library
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## About
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No dependencies. Licensed under the MIT License. Written by Lars Mueller aka LMD or appguru(eu). Notable contributions by [luk3yx](https://github.com/luk3yx) in the form of suggestions, bug reports and fixes. Another [bugfix](https://github.com/appgurueu/modlib/pull/7) by [NobWow](https://github.com/NobWow/). Requires Lua 5.1 / LuaJIT.
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### Principles
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* Game-agnostic: Modlib aims to provide nothing game-specific;
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* Minimal invasiveness: Modlib should not disrupt other mods;
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even at the expense of syntactic sugar, changes to the global
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environment - apart from the addition of the modlib scope - are forbidden
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* Architecture: Modlib is organized hierarchically
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* Performance: Modlib tries to not compromise performance for convenience; modlib loads lazily
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## Tests
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The tests are located in a different repo, [`modlib_test`](https://github.com/appgurueu/modlib_test), as they are quite heavy due to testing the PNG reader using PngSuite. Reading the tests for examples of API usage is recommended.
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## API
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(Incomplete) documentation resides in the `doc` folder; you'll have to dive into the code for everything else.
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The mod namespace is `modlib`, containing all modules which in turn contain variables & functions.
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Modules are lazily loaded by indexing the `modlib` table. Do `_ = modlib.<module>` to avoid file load spikes at run time.
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Localizing modules (`local <module> = modlib.<module>`) is recommended.
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