fengari-web

Provides anything you need to run Fengari in the browser.

Getting started

Download

Visit the GitHub releases page and get the latest version.

Alternatively you can Build fengari-web yourself.

Directly

Load fengari-web in your web page:

Now any script of type

application/lua

Note that if you use a

src

async

With build process

See fengari-loader

Compatibility

fengari-web should work in all modern browsers.

Verified to work in:

• Chrome >= 38
• Firefox >= 19
• Safari >= 8
• Microsoft IE 11
• Microsoft Edge

API

As well as running

fengari

fengari

• L

  : the main

  lua_State

  (in which script tags are run)

• interop

  : containing the fengari-interop library

• load(source, chunkname)

  : a function that loads the lua code in

  source

  with the optional chunk name

  chunkname

  and returns it as a function. This function can be used to programmatically run lua code in the main

  lua_State

  from JavaScript. e.g.

  js
  console.log(fengari.load('return 1+1')())
  

Building

git clone https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-web.git
npm install

This should automatically kick off the build process. The built files can then be found in the

dist/

If you need to rebuild, run

npm run build

Or use

webpack