Top 7 Lua lua-library Projects

Penlight

7 1,823 6.6 Lua

A set of pure Lua libraries focusing 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.

Project mention: Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

To have enough batteries you kind of just need penlight[1] and maybe luastd. Of course there's posix, lfs, socket, luasec and you're semi set.
[1]: https://lunarmodules.github.io/Penlight/

batteries

4 285 7.4 Lua

Reusable dependencies for games made with lua (especially with love)
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
async.nvim

2 43 3.8 Lua

Small aync library for Neovim plugins

Project mention: Code snippet for automatic layout switching (SwayWM only) | /r/neovim | 2023-07-07

I made automatic keyboard layout switching using autocmd. You need jq, swaywm and async.nvim to run it.

functional

2 13 0.0 Lua

Functional programming utilities implemented in pure Lua. (by wqferr)
lua-firebase

1 12 0.0 Lua

A Firebase modules in Lua
lua-timeago

1 8 0.6 Lua

Simple Lua library library for displaying dates as relative time ago language
LuaObfuscation

1 4 0.0 Lua

lua source code obfuscation tool

Project mention: Any good free obfuscator? | /r/robloxhackers | 2023-06-23

PY44N, VoidmatrixHeathcliff/LuaObfuscation, and kosuke14/ByteLuaObfuscator were all found using a quick google search.

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).