Is it possible to connect Lua and javascript?

Question

I\'m not sure if the question is well-posed as english is not my mother tongue. Is it possible to connect lua and javascript together? I did not find anything about that yet

Answer 1

You have a few options for Lua usage on the front-end (this is probably what you're aiming for as you'd like to connect/replace JS with Lua):

• https://github.com/paulcuth/starlight
• https://github.com/gamesys/moonshine
• https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari

There is some interesting WASM stuff in the works, like:

• https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
• https://github.com/serprex/luwa
• https://github.com/fperrad/lua.wasm

For back-end there are even more options. Most noticeable are probably:

• https://github.com/leafo/lapis
• https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/
• https://github.com/sailorproject/sailor
• https://openresty.org/en/
• https://github.com/sumory/lor
• https://github.com/luvit/luvit

I've listed just a few. There is a lot.