luvit/luvit

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3963 stars · 374 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Luvit is a Node.js-style asynchronous I/O runtime for Lua, built on libuv and LuaJIT, usable as a standalone CLI scripting platform or a library. It ships with a Node-like API (http, fs, etc.) and the lit package manager for publishing and consuming Lua modules.

Use cases

• run lua scripts as standalone http servers
• write async io applications in lua
• migrate node.js code to lua
• build servers using coroutines instead of callbacks
• bundle lua apps into standalone executables with luvi
• install lua packages with a npm-like tool

When to choose

• you want node.js-style async apis but in lua
• you need a lightweight scripting runtime on libuv
• your team knows lua and wants event-driven servers

When to avoid

• you need the node.js/npm ecosystem and libraries
• you want a mainstream runtime with large community support
• you need multithreaded cpu-bound processing

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

http-server web-framework cli concurrency package-manager interpreter developer-tools web-development backend programming-languages windows bsd cli cross-platform lua lua luajit libuv nodejs-style-api async-io lit-package-manager luvi-runtime event-loop coroutines command-line linux macos

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