sapphire

A lightweight module loader or a batteries included framework

Vision

• A simple, short module loader that can be extended into a fully fledged framework taking care of networking, logging, data, ECS system scheduling, etc.
• roblox-ts support
• By default can be as simple as:

local sapphire = require("@packages/sapphire")
local singletons = ...

sapphire()
    .add_singletons(singletons)
    .start()

• Singletons don't have to require sapphire itself for anything:

local singleton = {}

function singleton.start()
end

return singleton

• Singletons can have priority by specifying an optional priority property:

local singleton = {}
singleton.priority = 1234

• Doesn't use any custom module loaders, depends on require() to not sacrifice types:

local dependency = require("@singletons/dependency")

• Can be extended with .use(), which instantly runs a singleton that can add extra functionality:

type extension = {
    start: (sapphire) -> (), -- extensions' `.start()` lifecycle is additionally called with the framework itself
    lifecycles: { [string]: () -> () }, -- to add extra lifecycles to singletons
}
type use = (extension) -> builder

local sapphire_lifecycles = require("@packages/sapphire_lifecycles")
local sapphire_net = require("@packages/sapphire_net")

sapphire()
    .use(sapphire_lifecycles) -- Adds extra lifecycles
    .use(sapphire_net) -- Initializes the networking library
-- Extensions are ran instantly! `sapphire_net` can use a `.heartbeat()` lifecycle if `sapphire_lifecycles` adds it, but also `sapphire_lifecycles` can't use any features from `sapphire_net`

• If an extension needs complex functionality and doesn't need custom functionality or functionality that doesn't exist, it should use an existing libary. For example:
  • A sapphire_lifecycles extension wouldn't need any complex functionality and wouldn't use any library
  • A sapphire_net extension would be different from existing networking libraries and wouldn't use any networking library, but would use a library such as Squash to not re-implement serdes
  • A sapphire_ecs or sapphire_data extension wouldn't need any new functionality so it would use an existing library like ECR or keyForm (in order)

Todo

• [ ] Set up project
• [ ] Make basic, extensible module loader
• [ ] Add pre-built extensions:
  • [ ] sapphire_lifecycles - extra lifecycles for RunService and Players
  • [ ] sapphire_logging - a nice logging library with a log history
  • [ ] sapphire_net - optimized networking library that features defined (like ByteNet) events and undefined events, both with buffer serdes, albeit undefined events performing worse due to having to define types and lengths in the buffer
  • [ ] sapphire_data - batteries included wrapper for an existing data library like keyForm
  • [ ] sapphire_ecr - scheduler for ECR with niceties
  • [ ] sapphire_jecs - scheduler for JECS with niceties
• [ ] Testing

Note

Partially inspired by team-fireworks/ohmyprvd!