What magic have you done to create custom modules in AdonisJS for the Ioc

[jlenon7]

I'm a big fan of your work and I follow you here on Github daily!

import HttpContext from '@ioc:Adonis/Core/HttpContext'

Could you explain how you made this behavior happen in the Adonis ecosystem? If so, could you provide a very simple example of how to reproduce this?

I've been looking at Adonis' organization and found this package ioc-transformer. As I understand it, when compiling TypeScript you search for all imports that have the @ioc tag and replace it with ioc.use('Adonis/Alias'). But I didn't understand how you can use this package. Thanks a lot mate, keep up the great work you've been doing for the Node.js community

[thetutlage]

Hey! Thanks for your kind words. It feels great when someone likes your craft :)

As you mentioned, the ioc-transformer package does replace the imports identifiers starting with @ioc with ioc.use() calls.

Unfortunately, the TypeScript command line utility tsc does not allow using custom transformers. You will have to use their compiler API for that.

In case of AdonisJS, we use the compiler API here.

However, there is an alternative command line utility called ttypescript and they allow using transformers. Think of ttsc same as tsc, but with the ability to use custom AST transformers.

I hope this answers your question. Otherwise, feel free to ask :)

[jlenon7]

Thank you so much Virk! I believe I can get by with this information 😊