LuaRocks is the package manager for Lua modules.
It allows you to create and install Lua modules as self-contained packages called rocks. You can download and install LuaRocks on Unix and Windows. Get started
LuaRocks is free software and uses the same license as Lua.
Recent Modules
(View all) (Recent versions)- A simple lua templating engine with good escaping and no control-flow
- Riffusion AI music generator metadata package
- ACP (Agent Client Protocol) client for Neovim
- A taisei progress file editor based on neovim.
- WebTiles: Modern Tile Storage Format
Most Downloaded
(This week)- Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
- File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
- Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
- JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
- Network support for the Lua language
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(More graphs & stats)Quick Start
Installing LuaRocks in a Unix system:
$ wget https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.13.0.tar.gz
$ tar zxpf luarocks-3.13.0.tar.gz
$ cd luarocks-3.13.0
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
$ sudo luarocks install luasocket
$ lua
Lua 5.3.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require "socket"
On Windows? Installation instructions for Windows.
Contributing Modules
Anyone can upload and host Lua modules.
Register an account and upload a .rockspec to create a new module. If your
module name is not taken it will be added to the root manifest.
After you have uploaded a .rockspec, you can upload .rock files for a
specific version by going to the version’s page. Rock files ensure that your
module will be installable as long as this site is up.
The most recent version of LuaRocks supports uploading modules with the
upload command:
$ luarocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec
For older LuaRocks installations, you can use moonrocks:
$ luarocks install moonrocks
$ moonrocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec
Read more on the About Page.
