A collection of tools for working with Lua source code. Primarily a Lua source code minifier, but also includes some static analysis tools and a general Lua lexer and parser.

Currently the minifier performs:

• Stripping of all comments and whitespace
• True semantic renaming of all local variables to a reduced form
• Reduces the source to the minimal spacing, spaces are only inserted where actually needed.

The LuaMinify shell and batch files are given as shortcuts to running a command line instance of the minifier with the following usage:

LuaMinify sourcefile [destfile]

Which will minify to a given destination file, or to a copy of the source file with _min appended to the filename if no output file is given.

First, download the source code, which you can do by hitting this button:

Then copy the RobloxPlugin folder from the source into your Roblox Plugins directory, which can be found by hitting Tools->Open Plugins Folder in Roblox Studio.

Features:

- Lua scanner/parser, which generates a full AST
- Lua reconstructor
    - minimal
    - full reconstruction (TODO: options, comments)
    - TODO: exact reconstructor
- support for embedded long strings/comments e.g. [[abc [[ def ]] ghi]]

Todo: - use table.concat instead of appends in the reconstructors