Forwarded Requires and Types

[runecapes]

Lets say I have a module, that just indexes a module, requires it and returns it

so

--Index.lua
return require(script.ModuleA)

ModuleA has the type ‘TypeA’

I want to access ‘TypeA’ from the Index. Not from having to require the module myself.
But I can’t. Is there no way to do this in LuaU?

[East98]

You’ll have to re-export types to make them accessible from the root module.

local ModuleA = require(script.ModuleA)

export type TypeA = ModuleA.TypeA

return ModuleA

[runecapes]

Yeah, I guess this is the only way then.

Damn that sucks.

[7z99 (cody)]

It’s a hack but you can do this, it works for me with the old type solver:

type a = typeof(require(script.ModuleA))
return require(script.ModuleA) :: a

For some reason this doesn’t work even though it’s pretty much the same thing:

return require(script.ModuleA) :: typeof(require(script.ModuleA))