awesome-lua

A curated list of awesome Lua frameworks, libraries and software.

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Awesome Lua / Package Management
LuaDist LuaDist is a true multi-platform package management system that aims to provide both source and binary repository of modules for the Lua programming language
Luaforge LuaForge was a software project hosring website set up in 2004 by André Carregal and the Kepler Project, to promote development of Lua software modules
LuaRocks LuaRocks is a system that allows the versioning of Lua packages and their dependencies. LuaRocks guarantees that every package installed will continue to work, even if its dependencies are updated

Awesome Lua / Distribution
LuaBinaries LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms

Awesome Lua / Build Tools & IDE
Decoda 900 over 6 years ago Decoda Lua IDE and debugger
Lake 131 about 9 years ago A Lua-based Build Tool
ZeroBrane Studio 2,615 5 months ago A lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, remote debugger, and code analyzer

Awesome Lua / Filesystem
LuaFileSystem LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution
LAR LAR stands for Lua ARchive, and consist of a module and a file format that empowers a lua script to load lua modules from within a packaged, compressed file
LuaZip LuaZip is a lightweight Lua extension library used to read files stored inside zip files. The API is very similar to the standard Lua I/O library API
LuaExpat LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library
lua-path 76 over 3 years ago File system path manipulation library

Awesome Lua / Date and Time
LuaDate Date & Time module for Lua 5.1/5.2

Awesome Lua / Lua Implementations
UniLua 1,104 4 months ago A pure c# implementation of Lua 5.2 focus on compatibility with Unity
Luerl 1,034 22 days ago An experimental implementation of Lua 5.2 written solely in pure Erlang
MoonScript MoonScript is a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua
lua.js 601 over 1 year ago An ECMAscript framework to compile and run Lua code, allowing Lua to run in a browser or in Flash
lua.vm.js 836 about 6 years ago The Lua VM, on the Web
Moonshine A lightweight Lua VM for the browser
lua-alchemy 167 almost 9 years ago Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy
NeoLua A Lua implementation for the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).NeoLua is implemented in C# and uses the Dynamic Language Runtime. It therefore integrates very well with the .net framework

Awesome Lua / Text Processing
Markdown A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system

Awesome Lua / Documentation
LuaDoc LuaDoc is a documentation generator tool for Lua source code

Awesome Lua / HTTP
Xavante Xavante is a Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server that uses a modular architecture based on URI mapped handlers

Awesome Lua / Database
Tarantool 3,396 7 days ago Tarantool is an efficient NoSQL database and a Lua application server

Awesome Lua / Database Drivers
LuaDBI LuaDBI is a database interface library for Lua. It is designed to provide a RDBMS agnostic API for handling database operations
LuaLDAP LuaLDAP is a simple interface from Lua to an LDAP client, in fact it is a bind to OpenLDAP or to ADSI
LuaODBC ODBC Library for Lua. Also provide LuaSQL compatible module
LuaSQL LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS
LuaSQLite3 a Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2 wrapper for the SQLite3 library
Lsqlite A simple libsqlite3 binding for lua5.0-5.2 that provides 3 functions only and is still fully functional: local db = lsqlite.open(database) results, err = db:exec(statments) db:close()

Awesome Lua / Web Frameworks
CGIlua CGILua is a tool for creating dynamic Web pages and manipulating input data from Web forms
Kepler Project Kepler is a community of software developers building open software to help make Lua a viable option for development of web applications
Orbit Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua
WSAPI WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web applications
Tir 258 about 11 years ago Tir is an experimental web framework for the Mongrel2 webserver and Lua programming language
Lapis 3,113 3 months ago A web framework for Lua and OpenResty written in MoonScript
aLiLua 529 almost 7 years ago A epoll/kqueue based web server, inculded lua/coevent support (support Linux/MacOS/BSD platform)
Bamboo 229 over 9 years ago Bamboo is the web framework of Lua based on Mongrel2, ZeroMQ and NoSQL database
MOOCHINE 242 over 10 years ago A (very) simple and lightweight web framework based on ngx-openresty

Awesome Lua / CMS
Sputnik Sputnik is a software application that powers a dynamic website

Awesome Lua / Email
lua-imap4 15 about 7 years ago Simple IMAP4 protocol wrapper for Lua
lua-pop3 15 over 7 years ago POP3 client library for Lua
sendmail 30 about 3 years ago Simple wrapper around luasoket smtp.send

Awesome Lua / HTML Manipulation
Luatidy Lua binding for

Awesome Lua / Processes and Threads
lua-llthreads 143 over 8 years ago Low-Level threads(pthreads or WIN32 threads) for Lua
lua-llthreads2 75 12 months ago Enhancement version of lua-llthreads rewritten without code generator
LuaLanes 454 11 days ago lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library for Lua 5.1 and 5.2

Awesome Lua / Networking
Copas Copas is a dispatcher based on coroutines that can be used by TCP/IP servers
lua-zmq 151 over 8 years ago Lua bindings to ZeroMQ 2
Luakit Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua
LuaEvent This is a binding of libevent to Lua. It will serve as a drop-in replacement for copas, and eventually support more features (async DNS, HTTP, RPC...)
LuaSec 365 10 months ago LuaSec is a binding for OpenSSL library to provide TLS/SSL communication
LuaSocket LuaSocket is a Lua extension library that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet
LuaNode 415 over 8 years ago LuaNode allows to write performant net servers or clients, using an asynchronous model of computing (the Reactor pattern). You might have seen this model implemented in event processing frameworks like Node.js, EventMachine or Twisted. In fact, LuaNode is heavily based on Node.js, because I wanted to be able to do what Node.js does, but using Lua instead of JavaScript
lzmq 136 about 4 years ago A Lua wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library. Supports ZeroMQ version above 3.2.0
Ngx_lua 11,247 14 days ago Embed the power of Lua into Nginx
Luvit 3,803 about 2 months ago Luvit is an attempt to do something crazy by taking node.js' awesome architecture and dependencies and seeing how it fits in the Lua language
Turbo Turbo provides you with all the stuff you need to develop fast web apps, web API's and networking applications

Awesome Lua / Cryptography
AesFileEncrypt 18 over 7 years ago A simple file encryption library
MD5 MD5 offers basic cryptographic facilities for Lua 5.1: a hash (digest) function, a pair crypt/decrypt based on MD5 and CFB, and a pair crypt/decrypt based on DES with 56-bit keys
LCrypt LCrypt provides everything needed to implement a basic ssh client or server including symmetric ciphers, hashes, microtime, random strings, big integers, and zlib compression. An example RSA implementation is included
LuaCrypto LuaCrypto provides a Lua frontend to the OpenSSL cryptographic library

Awesome Lua / GUI
wxLua wxLua is a Lua scripting language wrapper around the wxWidgets cross-platform C++ GUI library
IUP IUP is a multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces
Lqt 188 over 11 years ago lqt is a Lua binding to the Qt framework. It is an automated binding generated from the Qt headers, and covers almost all classes and methods from supported Qt modules
LuaGnome LuaGnome provides a fairly complete binding to Gnome Libraries Lua, including glib 2.x, gdk, gtk 2.x, and a list of supporting libraries

Awesome Lua / Game Development
Skynet 13,270 21 days ago A lightweight online game framework
Scut 1,332 over 8 years ago Scut is a free, open source, stable game server framework, which support C#/Python/Lua script, and support Unity3d, Cocos2dx, FlashAir client access
LoveDOS 671 over 7 years ago A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua. LoveDOS provides an API based on a subset of the LÖVE API
PacPac 342 over 9 years ago This is Pac-Man from a parallel universe
aroma 197 about 12 years ago Aroma is game creation framework/platform that targets Chrome's Native Client. It lets you create games that can be distributed through the Chrome Web Store

Awesome Lua / Logging
LuaLogging LuaLogging provides a simple API to use logging features in Lua. Its design was based on log4j. LuaLogging currently supports, through the use of appenders, console, file, email, socket and sql outputs
Lsyslog lsyslog is a Lua module that wraps the syslog(3) C API. It has been tested with Lua 5.2 on Linux
Lua-log 109 about 6 years ago Asynchronous logging library for Lua 5.1/5.2

Awesome Lua / Testing
Busted 1,404 3 months ago Elegant Lua unit testing

Awesome Lua / Code Analysis and Linter
Lualint 83 over 1 year ago lualint performs luac-based static analysis of global variable usage in Lua source code

Awesome Lua / Debugging Tools
RemDebug RemDebug is a remote debugger for Lua 5.0 and 5.1. It lets you control the execution of another Lua program remotely, setting breakpoints and inspecting the current state of the program. RemDebug can also debug CGILua scripts
LuaProfiler LuaProfiler is a time profiler designed to help finding bottlenecks on your Lua program

Awesome Lua / Science and Data Analysis
SciLua The aim of this project is to offer a framework for numerical computing which combines the ease of use of scripting languages (Matlab, R, ...) with the high performance of compiled languages (C/C++, Fortran, ...)

Awesome Lua / Functional Programming
Lua Fun 2,093 about 2 months ago Lua Fun is a high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT tracing just-in-time compiler

Awesome Lua / Third-party APIs
LPeg LPeg is a new pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs)

Awesome Lua / Foreign Function Interface
Alien A C FFI for Lua
FFI Library The FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code
LuaFFI 469 almost 4 years ago Standalone FFI library for calling C functions from lua. Compatible with the LuaJIT FFI interface
NLua 2,023 4 months ago NLua is the bind between Lua world and the .NET world

Awesome Lua / High Performance
LuaJIT LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language. Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language. It may be embedded or used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language
Terra Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language
LLVM-Lua JIT/Static compiler for Lua using LLVM on the backend

Awesome Lua / Microsoft Windows
lua-pdh 4 almost 8 years ago Lua binding to Microsoft Performance Data Helper (PDH) library

Awesome Lua / Miscellaneous
Coxpcall Coxpcall encapsulates the protected calls with a coroutine based loop, so errors can be dealed without the usual pcall/xpcall issues with coroutines
Penlight 1,904 2 months ago Penlight brings together a set of generally useful pure Lua modules, focussing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries

Resources
LuaSearch Navigate Lua Module Documentation

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