Awesome Luau on npm

A handpicked list of quality Luau packages, hosted on npm. These packages follow the Sea of Voices Luau Package Standard.

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Table of content:

• Data: for data structures or data management packages
• Resources: utilities to manage resources
• Async: asynchronous utilities
• Roblox: specific for Roblox development
• Test: test frameworks or utilities for testing
• React: libraries of components, hooks or other packages related to React
• JavaScript: packages inspired by JavaScript
• Rust: packages inspired by Rust

Data

Package	Description	License
@aceworks-studio/random	A utility library to work with randomness.
@aceworks-studio/state-machine	A utility to easily create simple state machines
@jsdotlua/collections	JavaScript like collections (Array, Map, Set, Object)
@jsdotlua/diff-sequences	Compare items in two sequences to find the longest common subsequence
@jsdotlua/graphql	A reference implementation of GraphQL translated to Luau
@jsdotlua/otter	Declarative animation library for Luau built around (but not limited to) springs
@jsdotlua/react-otter	A React interface to the declarative animation library named Otter
@seaofvoices/easing-styles	A library to interpolate values using common easing functions
@seaofvoices/heck-luau	A case conversion library with Unicode support
@sircfenner/png-luau	Luau library for working with PNG files
chroma-luau	A library for color manipulation
luau-character	A library for Unicode character classification
luau-disk	Immutable table operations for Luau
luau-grids	A fully typed library to handle grids (2D or 3D)
luau-path	A library to handle file paths (based on the Rust implementation)
luau-unicode-width	A library for calculating displayed width of Unicode characters and strings
luau-zlib	A library to compress and decompress strings using the deflate/zlib format

Resources

Package	Description	License
luau-teardown	A utility to easily clean up resources

Async

Package	Description	License
@jsdotlua/promise	A JavaScript like Promise implementation
@jsdotlua/scheduler	The scheduler implementation used by the React fiber reconciler
@jsdotlua/zen-observable	Observables for Luau
luau-signal	A simple signal (or event) utility

Roblox

Package	Description	License
@crosswalk-game/currency	A crosswalk module to handle in-game currencies
@crosswalk-game/data-handler	A crosswalk module to handle player data
@crosswalk-game/menu-handler	A module to handle UI menus using tagged instances
@seaofvoices/react-lua-hooks	General-purpose collection of hooks for React-Lua
@seaofvoices/react-render-hook	Testing utility to easily test React-Lua hooks
@seaofvoices/react-roblox-hooks	Roblox specific collection of hooks for React-Lua
@seaofvoices/react-roblox-studio-plugin	A React component library to create Roblox plugins
@seaofvoices/tag-effect	A Luau library to apply effects to tagged Roblox instances
@sircfenner/studiocomponents	React implementation of Roblox Studio components
crosswalk-channels	A crosswalk module to send data from server to clients
crosswalk-client	A Roblox game framework (client logic)
crosswalk-server	A Roblox game framework (server logic)

Test

Package	Description	License
@jsdotlua/dom-testing-library	Testing utilities for Roblox Luau
@jsdotlua/jest	Delightful Luau testing library
@jsdotlua/jest-globals	Access all jest utilities like it, describe or expect
@jsdotlua/react-test-renderer	Roblox Luau port of the react-test-renderer for integration-level tests
@jsdotlua/react-testing-library	Simple and complete testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
@seaofvoices/react-render-hook	Testing utility to easily test React-Lua hooks

React

Package	Description	License
@jsdotlua/react	A translation of React JS 17.x into Luau
@jsdotlua/react-is	Constants and runtime check functions for the various valid types of elements in React
@jsdotlua/react-otter	A React interface to the declarative animation library named Otter
@jsdotlua/react-roblox	Roblox opinionated renderer to stand for native renderers like react-dom
@jsdotlua/react-test-renderer	Roblox Luau port of the react-test-renderer for integration-level tests
@jsdotlua/react-testing-library	Simple and complete testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
@jsdotlua/roact-navigation	A declarative navigation system built on React-Lua, mostly translated from React Navigation v4
@jsdotlua/scheduler	The scheduler implementation used by the React fiber reconciler
@seaofvoices/react-lua-hooks	General-purpose collection of hooks for React-Lua
@seaofvoices/react-render-hook	Testing utility to easily test React-Lua hooks
@seaofvoices/react-roblox-hooks	Roblox specific collection of hooks for React-Lua
@seaofvoices/react-roblox-studio-plugin	A React component library to create Roblox plugins
@sircfenner/studiocomponents	React implementation of Roblox Studio components

JavaScript

A list of packages inspired by JavaScript concepts or even directly translated from the JavaScript ecosystem.

Package	Description	License
@jsdotlua/chalk	Terminal string styling library
@jsdotlua/collections	JavaScript like collections (Array, Map, Set, Object)
@jsdotlua/diff-sequences	Compare items in two sequences to find the longest common subsequence
@jsdotlua/dom-testing-library	Testing utilities for Roblox Luau
@jsdotlua/graphql	A reference implementation of GraphQL translated to Luau
@jsdotlua/instance-of	A utility function to check if a table-object is considered an Instance of another table-class
@jsdotlua/jest	Delightful Luau testing library
@jsdotlua/jest-globals	Access all jest utilities like it, describe or expect
@jsdotlua/luau-polyfill	Utilities to mimic common JavaScript logic useful for translation to Luau
@jsdotlua/picomatch	Glob matcher library
@jsdotlua/pretty-format	Stringify Luau values
@jsdotlua/promise	A JavaScript like Promise implementation
@jsdotlua/react	A translation of React JS 17.x into Luau
@jsdotlua/react-is	Constants and runtime check functions for the various valid types of elements in React
@jsdotlua/react-roblox	Roblox opinionated renderer to stand for native renderers like react-dom
@jsdotlua/react-test-renderer	Roblox Luau port of the react-test-renderer for integration-level tests
@jsdotlua/react-testing-library	Simple and complete testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
@jsdotlua/roact-navigation	A declarative navigation system built on React-Lua, mostly translated from React Navigation v4
@jsdotlua/scheduler	The scheduler implementation used by the React fiber reconciler
@jsdotlua/zen-observable	Observables for Luau
@seaofvoices/easing-styles	A library to interpolate values using common easing functions
chroma-luau	A library for color manipulation
luau-regexp	A regular expression library for Luau
symbol-luau	Simple object to mimic JavaScript Symbol type

Rust

A list of packages inspired by Rust concepts or even directly translated from Rust crates.

Package	Description	License
@seaofvoices/heck-luau	A case conversion library with Unicode support
luau-character	A library for Unicode character classification
luau-unicode-width	A library for calculating displayed width of Unicode characters and strings