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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