• WoW Lua guide
• Online Lua demo
• Lua documentation
• Wow addons
• Wow programming
• Wow API guide
• Wow plugin

• /reload – Reload plugin directories
• /console scriptErrors 1 – Enable lua errors
• /console scriptErrors 0 – Disable lua errors
• /etrace – Open event trace
• /fstack – Toggle Frame Stack debugging
• WoW events
• .toc format
• Frame Strata
• AddOn loading process

• < (less than)
• ⇐ (less than or equals)
• > (greater than)
• >= (greater than or equals)
• == (equals)
• ~= (not equals)
• and
• or
• not

Type depending on assignment. String, number and boolean.

local a = "Yo man's dude" -- locally scoped
b = 432.12 -- global

greetings = {}
greetings["Orcish"] = "Throm-Ka"
greetings["Draenei"] = "Chronakai Kristor!"
greetings.Thalassian = "Bal'a dash, malanore" -- Another method to fill the table

greetings = {
    ["Orcish"] = "Throm-Ka",
    ["Draenei"] = "Chronokai Kristor!",
    ["Thalassian"] = "Bal'a dash, malanore"
}
 
for key, value in pairs(greetings) do
    print("Language: " .. key .. ", greeting: " .. value)
end

number = 1
potencies = {}
 
while(number < 4096) do
    number = number * 2
    table.insert(potencies, number)
end
 
print("Our table has " .. #potencies .. " entries.")
print("The tenth potency of 2 is " .. potencies[10] .. ".")
 
print("The first " .. #potencies .. " potencies of 2:")
 
for i = 1, #potencies, 1 do
    print(potencies[i])
end

i = 1
 
while(i <= 10) do
    print(i)
    i = i + 1
end

for i = 1, 10, 1 do
    print(i)
end

for var = start, end, increment do
    -- code
end

repeat
    -- code
until(condition)

function dummy()
    return "Hey", 54.54
end

-- Create a frame and register this frame to run code on an event.
local function PrintStuff()
	print("Now this code is executed!")
end
 
local EventFrame = CreateFrame("frame", "EventFrame")
EventFrame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
 
EventFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, ...)
	if(event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD") then
		C_Timer.After(1, PrintStuff)
	end
end)