Does a trick like this exist for lua modules?

[britzl]

@gianmichele

Is there a way to trick it so that you can access those functions directly, like if they were global?

You can do whatever you want in the required file. You can declare global functions in the required file. There is no requirement to return a table with the functions.

-- mymodule.lua
function greet(name)
    print("Hello", name)
end

require("mymodule")
greet("Bob") -- Hello Bob