Alexander Larsen

Tell me about it. Nothing like updating ancient projects and watching all the dependencies explode 😬

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Spent all day patching the recent Unity security vulnerability in Saneject, WordBaby, and a bunch of old itch.io games that no one plays. Thanks for the productive day, Unity!

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This looks trippy in the best way!

Thanks a lot! Really glad you like it :)

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection the Unity way. Dependency injection the Unity way. Contribute to alexanderlarsen/Saneject development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🐉 Tails (VR Snake) Dev Log #5. Back with a big under-the-hood change: now powered by Saneject, my editor-time DI framework for Unity. No more GetComponent chaos or fragile drag and drop. Clean DI structure with inspector visibility.

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🎨🧊 Smashy Cubes. Made a silly Unity prototype for a job test that didn’t work out. Fling cubes, watch them shatter into hundreds of fragments, then get guilt-tripped by a robot vacuum into cleaning. Play here 👉 alexanderlarsen.itch.io/smashy-cubes

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Had enough of Unity’s half-serialized, half-GetComponent dependency spaghetti creeping into every class? 🍝🙅🏻‍♂️

Saneject injects dependencies at editor-time: clean API, declarative rules, full Inspector visibility. No runtime container, no second lifecycle.

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Unity AAA demo: green bean chases red bean. OK it looks awful, but it's actually a learning demo that ships with Saneject (Unity editor-time DI). Catch beans, learn DI!

🏷️ v0.9.0 beta
🧩 Unity 2022.3.12f1 → 6.2
🔗 github.com/alexanderlarsen/Saneject

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Thank you! Basically yes, it's rigged 3D models moving along a spline drawn by the controller :)

Saneject - Unity editor-time DI for serialized fields and serialized interfaces - now supports Unity 2022.3.12f1 and up. 225 automated tests on six Unity versions run on every git push. Zero manual testing before 1.0.0 release. I’ll sleep better now.
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GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

⚙️ Saneject v0.7.0 update is out. Easy Unity DI with zero runtime overhead or second lifecycle. Injects dependencies in-editor into serialized fields (yes, interfaces too). Now with collection injection, advanced filtering, 225 unit tests, and more!

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I like that idea! Any ETA on release?

Looks fun! It gives me Endless War vibes. I loved those games back in the... 2000s I think?

Saneject link for the curious. It's so new that Google hasn't indexed the repo yet github.com/alexanderlar...

I will let you know how it goes!

Planning to get back to work on Tails soon 🐉
Got a bit sidetracked improving the architecture… and accidentally built a full open source DI system instead. Saneject actually started as a small thing for Tails, so now I get to really battletest it.

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Yep, same here! Zenject is powerful but for simpler projects, there is just too much ceremony. Feel free to reach out if you got questions, find bugs or have any suggestions

It might sound annoying and boilerplate-y but the tools actually generate the player proxy with just two clicks and interface forwarding is taken care of by a source generator.

The beta release includes a small demo game, that also has an instantiated enemy prefab referencing the player. The game also uses proxies for references between scenes. Feel free to check it out!

The proxy is a ScriptableObject, so it can be serialized/referenced everywhere. It forwards all interface calls to the concrete and at runtime it locates the concrete instance (e.g. PlayerController) on first access. So there is a runtime operation involved here, but it's cheap :)

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

Good question! The enemy would need to access the player by interface (e.g. IPlayer), then you would create an InterfaceProxyObject<PlayerController> for the player and plug that into the IPlayer field in the enemy prefab. More details here github.com/alexanderlar...

Thanks everyone!

Exactly 😃 Glad you like it

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

Introducing Saneject → Dependency injection that feels native to Unity.
Editor-time resolution, no runtime container, no surprises.
Clean, easy to use, Inspector-friendly, with serialized interfaces!
Beta out now → github.com/alexanderlar...

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You can do it! Let us know how it goes 💪

Appreciate it! Sorry to hear about your headset. Sounds like it's time for an upgrade 😅 Tails is still in development, but it's coming to a headset near you at some point

The look on his face also seems really sincere that he's gonna get weird with it