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 | 132 | 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 | 77 | almost 4 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 | 6 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 | 603 | 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 | 835 | 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 | 15 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 | 257 | about 11 years ago | Tir is an experimental web framework for the Mongrel2 webserver and Lua programming language |
Lapis | 3,117 | 4 days 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 | 10 days 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 | 457 | 3 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 | 9 days 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 | 11,269 | 9 days ago | Embed the power of Lua into Nginx |
Luvit | 3,808 | 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 | 13,277 | 28 days ago | A lightweight online game framework |
Scut | 1,333 | 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 | 1,411 | 3 months ago | Elegant Lua unit testing |
Awesome Lua / Code Analysis and Linter | |||
Lualint | 85 | 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 | 2,095 | 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 | 2,032 | 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 | 1,914 | 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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