LuaRocks - The Lua package manager

LuaRocks is the package manager for Lua modules.

It allows you to create and install Lua modules as self-contained packages called rocks. You can download and install LuaRocks on Unix and Windows. Get started

LuaRocks is free software and uses the same license as Lua.

Recent Modules

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lsp-dui by kokaito-git — downloads: 4
nvim plugin to display LSP issues at the file/line level, copy errors, etc.
loglua by pessoa736 — downloads: 4
Minimalistic logging helper for Lua.
VMSL by pessoa736 — downloads: 0
Lua library for N-dimensional vectors and matrices. Lua modules API (require), experimental.
askcode by e3oroush — downloads: 2
An AI-powered assistant for Neovim that connects to services like Gemini and Amazon Q to help you understand and write code directly in your editor.
markdown-plus.nvim by yousefhadder — downloads: 6
Modern Markdown editing for Neovim

Most Downloaded

(This week)

lua-cjson by OpenResty — downloads: 22m
Fast JSON encoding/parsing support for Lua
LuaFileSystem by hisham — downloads: 12m
File System Library for the Lua Programming Language
lua-resty-http by pintsized — downloads: 9m
Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.
lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags — downloads: 8.1m
JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.
LuaSocket by lunarmodules — downloads: 6.7m
Network support for the Lua language

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Daily Module Downloads

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Quick Start

Installing LuaRocks in a Unix system:

$ wget https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.12.2.tar.gz
$ tar zxpf luarocks-3.12.2.tar.gz
$ cd luarocks-3.12.2
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
$ sudo luarocks install luasocket
$ lua
Lua 5.3.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require "socket"

On Windows? Installation instructions for Windows.

Contributing Modules

Anyone can upload and host Lua modules.

Register an account and upload a .rockspec to create a new module. If your module name is not taken it will be added to the root manifest.

After you have uploaded a .rockspec, you can upload .rock files for a specific version by going to the version’s page. Rock files ensure that your module will be installable as long as this site is up.

The most recent version of LuaRocks supports uploading modules with the upload command:

$ luarocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec

For older LuaRocks installations, you can use moonrocks:

$ luarocks install moonrocks
$ moonrocks upload my_thing-1.0-1.rockspec