WP:Lua (talk) Help To do Resources Reference manual

Help:Lua for beginners
Help:Lua debugging – about debugging Lua modules
Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules
Shortcut
- HELP:LUA

"Hello world"[edit]

See Module:Example

Documentation[edit]

Scribunto Lua reference manual (Manual for the Mediawiki implementation)
Programming in Lua (Official book/introduction to Lua)
Lua tutorials at lua-users.org
Wiktionary:Lua on English Wiktionary: contains notes on efficiency and on dealing with Unicode and UTF-8

How-to guides[edit]

Help:Lua for beginners
Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
"What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)
Wikipedia:Lua string functions
Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling

Debugging modules[edit]

Module:SimpleDebug - It allows to collect and view the values of one or several variables and/or customized labels of several points of a lua program.

Testing modules[edit]

Module:UnitTests - used to power many module unit tests, which are usually found by the name "Module:(your-module-name)/tests".
Module:Example/testcases – Results - Unit tests for Module:Example (the "hello world" module)

Profiling modules and functions[edit]

Module:Timing – module to do some simple probing of timing issues, mostly to spot and fix load problems

Patterns[edit]

mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Patterns
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_patterns
PatternsTutorial
REGEX (as applied by WP:AWB): WP:REGEX

Wikipedia resources[edit]

Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Sandbox - allows you to work on a set of files within a sandbox prefix.

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