name: roblox-scripting description: Luau scripting for Roblox: variables, functions, tables, modules, events, coroutines. Use when writing or debugging Roblox Lua code.

Scripting Reference

Quick Reference

• Properties and attributes: How to use scripts to manipulate object properties and attributes.
• Script capabilities: Script Capabilities is a system that controls which actions scripts can perform.
• Debounce patterns: Debounce patterns are coding techniques that prevent a function from running too many times.
• Bindable events and callbacks: Bindable events and callbacks allow for back-and-forth communication on the same side of the client-server boundary.
• Deferred engine events: Deferred engine events defer event handlers until certain resumption points.
• Events: Provides an overview of events and a summary of Robloxs built-in events.
• Remote events and callbacks: Remote network events and callbacks allow for back-and-forth communication across the client-server boundary.
• Scripting: An introduction to scripting in Roblox with the Luau programming language.
• Script types and locations: How scripts run in Roblox, and how location impacts that behavior.
• Reuse code: How to use module scripts to reuse code.

Detailed Reference

Scripting

See scripting.md for:

• Properties and attributes
• Script capabilities
• Debounce patterns
• Bindable events and callbacks
• Deferred engine events
• ...and 10 more

Luau

See luau.md for:

• Booleans
• Luau comments
• Control structures
• Enums
• Functions
• ...and 17 more