Glass is a Lua library that makes it easy to lazy-load configuration files into a Lua table at runtime. Its main purpose is to make accessing different configuration files "transparent" to the programmer.
Assume the file `app/config/settings.json` exists in your project directory with the content `{"user":{"name":"User"}}`
```lua
local glass = require 'glass'
local config = glass.bind('app/config', {
(require 'glass.json');
})
print(config.settings.user.name) -- prints "User"
```
## How it Works
A glass loader is initialised with a list of loaders and will try each of them in order in its `__index` metamethod. The first loader that is able to fetch the wanted configuration will be used.
## Loaders
Glass offers the following loaders out of the box:
*`cosmo` loads cosmo templates
*`discount` loads markdown files\*.
*`json` loads a JSON file as a Lua table.
*`lua` loads and executes a Lua file.
*`moonhtml` loads a MoonHTML template and returns it as a function.
*`readfile` loads a file as a string.
*`skooma` loads a skooma template and returns it as a function.
\* For easier interoperability with other template loaders, the `discount` loader returns a static function which can be called to return the generated HTML. The markdown file is only parsed the first time.
