Knit Controllers create twice when placed in StarterPlayerScripts

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to store client-only ModuleScripts inside of StarterPlayerScripts (In a “Controllers” folder) that utilize the Knit framework.

  2. What is the issue? Knit reports that a controller (in this case, ScreenResize) was already created when attempting to run the CreateController function from Knit when the game is run.
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(When running the game, there are indeed two instances of this creation function being called, but I don’t expect the StarterPlayerScripts one to be called)
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  1. What solutions have you tried so far? I’ve searched for this issue, but haven’t found anybody else experiencing it.
KnitRuntimeClient.client.lua 
--Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
    local player = Players.LocalPlayer

--Folders
local controllersFolder = player:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts"):WaitForChild("Controllers")
--Modules
local Knit = require(ReplicatedStorage.Packages.Knit)

Knit.AddControllers(controllersFolder)
Knit.AddControllersDeep(controllersFolder)

Knit.Start()

How would I fix this?
Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

#2

You loaded the controllers twice.

#3

AddControllers and AddControllersDeep are meant to be used together, as shown in a similar case with services here. I’m guessing Knit makes sure scripts that are initialized don’t get initialized twice.

#4

.AddControllers loads all children in the given directory while .AddControllersDeep loads all descendants.

#5

I haven’t changed this script since moving modules from ReplicatedStorage to StarterPlayerScripts. Also, with only AddControllersDeep, this still errors.

#6

Kinda odd, do you have any scripts that require this ScreenResize module?

#7

Sorry to revive this topic, but I struggled with this for a while, and cannot find any other posts about this specific issue.

So for anyone looking for a solution to this here it is: Local script running twice - #2 by Maelstorm_1973

#8

Had the same issue, if your controller module is not parented in StarterPlayerScripts try doing that.