Lux Package Manager

Lux is a package manager for Lua. Its purpose is to manage Lua projects, dependencies, build scripts and more for you, so you can focus on writing and shipping Lua code.

Key features:

• 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 code linting via lx check
• 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.