Package Manager

The central feature of lde is the package manager. It allows you to add dependencies to your project and installs them to a folder local to your project which lua’s require() can resolve to.

Adding a dependency

You can add a dependency by adding a field to your lde.json file.

An example list of dependencies:

"dependencies": {
	"hood": { "path": "../hood" },
	"lde-test": { "git": "https://github.com/lde-org/lde" },
}

This can be automated with the lde add command. For git dependencies, do lde add <name> --git <repo> and for local dependencies, do lde add --path <package>.

Removing a dependency

Simply remove the entry from your lde.json, or use lde remove <name>.

Running your program with dependencies

You can use lde install to build all of your dependencies to a folder ./target/ inside of your project.

If you’re just running a normal Lua project, you can simply use lde run which will configure lua automatically to resolve dependencies from your /target/ directory automatically.

By default, lde run will use the LDE Runtime, which you can read about more on its dedicated page.