Lua Light Wings

Personal set of useful functions with beautiful syntax to extend Lua Language to my needs, based on Meelua.

Quickstart

luarocks install lua-light-wings

or

git clone https://github.com/burij/lua-light-wings.git
cd lua-light-wings

Modules

lua-light-wings.lua --core module

msg(x)
-- console output, can handle tables

is_any(x)
is_function(x)
is_boolean(x)
is_number(x)
is_string(x)
is_table(x)
is_list(x)
is_dictionary(x)
is_path(x)
is_url(x)
is_email(x)
-- raises error, in case the variable is not of the right type

globalize(x)
-- loads content of a module to a global space
is_dictionary(x)

map(x, y)
-- calls function on every element of a table
is_table(x)
is_function(y)

filter(x, y)
-- filters table elements based on predicate function
is_table(x)
is_function(y)

reduce(x, y, var)
-- reduces table to single value using accumulator function
is_table(x)
is_function(y)

need.lua

Drop-in replacement for 'require' function. Extends path-variables to find lua-modules in more locations. Able to download modules via luarocks (if installed) or via wget/curl (due potential security reasons of this feature, it's disabled by default. Check the source code before enabling).

local need = require "need"
local var = need(modulename, [module_name_on_luarocks / download_link])

lua-light-wings-extra.lua

Unsorted collection of helper functions, will not be documented, read the code to use.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.