useful-packages.md
February 26, 2016 ยท View on GitHub
Useful Lua Packages
Core
- luarocks - lua package manager
- luafilesystem - file system functions
- luasocket - core TCP / UDP / HTTP lua network library
- luaposix - core POSIX binding (fork / files / pipe
- lua-cjson - fast json for lua
Utility
- serpent - lua serializer and pretty printer
- inspect - transform lua into human readable representaton. Useful for reflection
- lub - more general purpose lua library
- penlight - useful general lua libraries
- underscore.lua - more lua util
Interesting
- luafun - functional programming for lua
- luv - libuv binding for lua
- coxpcall - encapsulated protected call that works with coroutines