A Lua to ECMAScript 6 transpiler.

Install dependencies, then build the Grunt plugin:

npm install
grunt grunt-plugin
npm link dist/build-tools/grunt-starlight

Build runtime, transpile tests, then run:

grunt

Tests will also be available to run in the browser at dist/test/index.html.

The Kitchen Sink edition of Starlight includes: - Starlight runtime, - Starlight parser, - DOMAPI - a build of Babel.js

Together these elements will enable you to execute Lua source code from <script> tags in the browser.

Around 85% of the file size of the Kitchen Sink is Babel, hence work is on the roadmap (below) to remove the need for it.

To build it:

grunt kitchen-sink

You'll then find the built file and example usage in dist/kitchen-sink.

The next features to add:

• Performance tests
• Add plug-ins architecture
  • Coroutines (as generators are not a 1:1 map)
  • Lua -> ES5 (remove need for Babel in browser)
• Customisation of environment and plugins at build-time
  • Selectively add standard libs.
• Implement missing standard lib functions
  • string.format()
  • string.dump()
  • load()
  • loadfile()