Wikipedia:Lua/Resources
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Documentation
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- Lua Programming at Wikibooks
- Scribunto: An Introduction at Wikibooks
How-to guides
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- Wikipedia:Lua articles
- User:Dragons flight/Lua performance
- Wikipedia:Lua unit testing
- mw:User:Sumanah/Lua vs Javascript
- Roberto Ierusalimschy. "Lua Performance Tips" (PDF). lua.org.
- Wikipedia:Lua speed – comparing template and module speeds (obsolete (because of HHVM))
Module links list
[edit ]{{lmd|Example}}to produce module links: Module:Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
WikiProject Lua templates
[edit ]- Template documentation can be related to module using {{Lua }}:
This template uses Lua:
- Template:WikiProject Lua header – this page's tabbed header