Browser-Lua: Run Lua in Browser

About

Browser-Lua project is an abstract wrapper to several alternative backends that allow to run Lua code in browser.

Browser-Lua allows user to call Lua code from JS and JS code from Lua.

Browser-Lua is still in its embryonic phase of development. More detailed description would be added later.

See the copyright information in the file named COPYRIGHT.

Supported backends

(None so far)

Planned backends

• lua-alchemy (http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy)
• lua5.1.js (https://github.com/logiceditor-com/lua5.1.js)
• lua.vm.js (http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html)
• js-lua (http://github.com/agladysh/js-lua)
• ljs (http://code.matthewwild.co.uk/ljs)
• nacl (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/)
• emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten)
• jill (http://code.google.com/p/jillcode/), as Java applet (with some js-lua-like wrapper)
• lua.js (https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js)
• brozula (https://github.com/creationix/brozula)

API v1.0

(To be implemented)

JS

• BrowserLua.init([enabled_backends])

• BrowserLua.doString(lua_code, [chunkname])

• BrowserLua.callLua(functionName, args, ...) --> array of return values

• BrowserLua.provideFile(path, file_contents_string)

• BrowserLua.doFile(path)

Lua

• BrowserLua.callJS(functionName, args, ...) --> return value

• BrowserLua.dofile(filename)

• BrowserLua.loadfile(filename, chunkname)

• BrowserLua.initWrapper()

Does the equivalent of this:

getenv().dofile = BrowserLua.dofile
getenv().loadfile = BrowserLua.loadfile

API v2.0

(To be designed and implemented)

• Data manipulation API just like lua-alchemy sugar.
• For JS (to manipulate Lua data)
• For Lua (to manipulate JS data)
• Modules, native to backend
• socket module (imitating luasocket.*)