Help:Lua/Resources

Help:Lua (talk) Help Links Resources Reference manual

Documentation

• Scribunto Lua reference manual
• Programming in Lua
• Introduction to Lua patterns
• About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex).
• Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.

Wikibooks

• Template:Wikibooks-inline
• Template:Wikibooks-inline

How-to guides

• Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
• "What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)
• Help:Lua debugging – a how-to guide about debugging Lua modules
• Help:Lua for beginners – basic tutorial and pointers
• Wikipedia:Lua string functions – string performance considerations and limits
• Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling – how to write templates that use Scribunto/Lua

• Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling/Programmers' Quick start Guide to Lua – a list of essential points

• Wikipedia:Comparable Lua functions to wikitext – how to convert wikitext to Lua
• Wikiversity:Lua – Lua tutorial from Wikiversity
• mw:SyntaxHighlight: <syntaxhighlight lang="Lua"> .. </syntaxhighlight>

Essays on Lua

• Wikipedia:Lua articles
• User:Dragons flight/Lua performance
• Wikipedia:Lua unit testing
• mw:User:Sumanah/Lua vs Javascript
• Wikipedia:Lua speed – comparing template and module speeds (obsolete (because of HHVM))

Module links list

• {{lmd|Example}} to produce module links: Module:Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

WikiProject Lua templates

• Template documentation can be related to module using {{Lua}}:

• Template:WikiProject Lua header – this page's tabbed header