Emmy-love-api

A script to generate LÖVE API autocomplete files for EmmyLua.

How to use it

Prepare the api folder to put your api in

• You can download the api.zip from the artifacts of the latest GitHub Actions and unzip the api from it.
• Alternatively, you can build the api folder by yourself.

How to build the api folder manually

1. Clone this repository recursively --recursive.
2. Create path api/love in the same folder where genEmmyAPI.lua is.
3. lua genEmmyAPI.lua and the API is generated in api.

Use the APIs in your project

• Copy the content of api folder into your project's root directory (the same folder where main.lua is). The content is just love.lua and a folder called love.
• If you use the Lua plugin on VS code, rather than copying, you can specify the API. Note that some API files might be too large for this plugin, and you should change the setting Lua.workspace.preloadFileSize to be at least 250 to fix it.

Once you start or refresh your IDE (might be automatic) you should have autocomplete and quick documentation for LÖVE!

Example workflow (Linux)

$ git clone https://github.com/26F-Studio/Emmy-love-api.git --recursive --depth=1 --shallow-submodules --single-branch
Cloning into 'Emmy-love-api'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 12, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (12/12), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (12/12), 6.49 KiB | 830.00 KiB/s, done.
Submodule 'love-api' (https://github.com/26f-studio/love-api) registered for path 'love-api'
Cloning into '/tmp/Emmy-love-api/love-api'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 195, done.        
remote: Counting objects: 100% (195/195), done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (153/153), done.        
remote: Total 195 (delta 83), reused 81 (delta 30), pack-reused 0        
Receiving objects: 100% (195/195), 174.27 KiB | 281.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (83/83), done.
Submodule path 'love-api': checked out '0333363b76aa8e2372c3545f9aea1d31c68f6c39'
$ cd Emmy-love-api
$ mkdir -p api/love
$ lua genEmmyAPI.lua 2>/dev/null