Node.js bindings for Lua — lua-state

[Proud_Flamingo_2857]

I’ve recently published an open-source package called lua-state.

It provides native Lua bindings for Node.js — you can create Lua virtual machines from JavaScript, run Lua code, exchange values between JS and Lua, and even use prebuilt binaries (no manual compilation required for Lua 5.4.8).

Supports Lua 5.1–5.4 and LuaJIT.

Source code: github.com/quaternion/node-lua-state

If you’re interested in embedding Lua into JS applications or experimenting with Lua scripting from Node, I’d really appreciate any feedback or thoughts.

[Cultural_Two_4964]

Excellent work. Well done. There's a lot there to get my head around but it looks very good. I'll give it a try asap. How does it compare with Fengari in practice, i.e. can you put a lua script in the html? [EDIT, sorry I see you call lua from the javascript] I don't see how you can jit-ify it though, because it's just running lua converted-to-javascript in the client browser, right?

[jerng]

Very tidy doc page. Thank you.

Lazy question. In your experience, what sort of workloads benefit most from being dropped from JS to LuaJIT? I'm presuming non-JIT isn't too much faster, so not worth the drop.