Introduction

Welcome to the official lux documentation.

Here you will find all sorts of resources ready to get you started on your Lua journey!

What is Lux?

lux is a package manager for Lua. Its purpose is to manage Lua projects, dependencies, build scripts and more for you, so you can focus on writing and shipping Lua code.

info

lux is still in beta but very close to a stable 1.0 release. It's not a full, comprehensive replacement to luarocks yet, and there may be bugs here and there!

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The site is divided into sections:

• To install lux, head over to the Getting Started section.
• To learn lux by doing, skip over to the Creating a Project section.

License

• Lux is licensed under LGPLv3.
• The Lux logo © 2025 by Kai Jakobi is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.