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@@ -11,9 +11,31 @@ 🐺 φεγγάρι - The Lua VM written in JS ES6 for Node and the browser -## Getting started in the browser +This repository contains the core fengari code (which is a port of the Lua C library) which includes parser, virtual machine and base libraries. +However it is rare to use this repository directly. + +- To use fengari in a web browser as easily as you might use JavaScript, see [fengari-web](https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-web) +- [fengari-interop](https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-interop) is a lua library that makes interoperating with JavaScript objects simple, it is already included in fengari-web. +- For a clone of the `lua` command line tool, but running under node.js, see [fengari-node-cli](https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-node-cli) + +### The JS API + +Once you've loaded fengari, you can use the JS API: + +```javascript +const lua = fengari.lua; +const lauxlib = fengari.lauxlib; +const lualib = fengari.lualib; + +const L = lauxlib.luaL_newstate(); + +lualib.luaL_openlibs(L); + +lua.lua_pushliteral(L, "hello world!"); +``` + +The JS API is exactly the same as the C API so `fengari.lua` exposes the same constants and functions as `lua.h`, `fengari.lauxlib` the same as `lauxlib.h` and `fengari.lualib` the same as `lualib.h`. If you're unfamiliar with the C API, you can take a look at [the manual](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#4). -Fengari is not released yet but you can experiment with it in the browser by following the instructions of the [fengari-web](https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-web) repository. ## Semantics |