Lua CLI

Open-source Lua projects categorized as CLI

Top 9 Lua CLI Projects

  1. croissant

    🥐 A Lua REPL and debugger

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. easypick.nvim

    A neovim plugin that lets you easily create Telescope pickers from arbitrary console commands

  4. lua_cliargs

    A command-line argument parsing module for Lua.

  5. neosh

    A next-gen shell for modern systems (wip)

  6. gh-xplr

    Explore GitHub repos using xplr via GitHub CLI

  7. dotfiles

    My dotfiles (by colepeters)

  8. luash

    Extensible Lua terminal emulator (by dl-tg)

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. dotfiles

    My dotfiles managed via yadm (by rochakgupta)

  11. led

    led - an ed clone written in lua! (by MetaStag)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source CLI projects in Lua? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 croissant 438
2 easypick.nvim 404
3 lua_cliargs 127
4 neosh 69
5 gh-xplr 47
6 dotfiles 14
7 luash 13
8 dotfiles 7
9 led 2

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