lux – package manager for Lua

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Create and manage Lua projects:
  • Easily manage dependencies, build steps and more through the lux.toml file.
• Parallel builds and installs:
• Add/remove dependencies with simple CLI commands.
• Automatic generation of rockspecs:
  • Say goodbye to managing 10 different rockspec files in your source code.
• Integrated code formatting via lx fmt:
  • Powered by stylua.
• Easily specify compatible Lua versions:
  • Lux will take care of Lua header installation automatically
  • Forget about users complaining they have the wrong Lua headers installed on their system
• Automatic EmmyLua/LuaCATS based type checking via lx check:
  • Powered by emmylua-analyzer-rust.
• Automatic code linting via lx lint
  • Powered by luacheck
• Powerful lockfile support:
  • Makes for fully reproducible developer environments.
  • Makes Lux easy to integrate with Nix.
• Fully compatible:
  • Works with existing luarocks packages.
  • Have a complex rockspec that you don’t want to rewrite to TOML? No problem! Lux allows the creation of an extra.rockspec file, everything just works.
  • Have a very complex build script? Lux can shell out to luarocks if it knows it has to preserve maximum compatibility.
• Automatically adds project dependencies to a .luarc.json file so they can be picked up by lua-language-server.

Website: github.com/lumen-oss/lux
Support:
Developer: Lumen
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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