What are your favorite Roblox developer resources?

Roblox Developer Community,

The wiki is an invaluable community resource, full of useful and indeed essential information and documentation. However, like what happens to most wikis over time, a lot of this content has become hard to find. Therefore, we are embarking on a simple initiative to help our entire developer community find and access the best and most important resources available to them. We will do this by creating a new page on the wiki that aggregates in one place the most useful links our community relies upon. This will help beginners build their expertise faster, and our more experienced developers navigate to key resources more efficiently.

We need your help

You can help by sharing what resources you feel are the most important and useful to Roblox developers. Consider sharing what pages and resources you have saved as bookmarks in your browser. Share with us not only what pages on the wiki you like, but what pages produced and managed by the community are useful as well.

To help get the ideas flowing, below is a list that contains some of the frequently viewed resources, or that some Roblox Staff members have recommended we add to this page.

I can’t wait to see what people share!

Sincerely,
Byrne Reese
Head of Information Experience

Links recommended by Roblox Staff

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My main ones are:

  • API reference
  • Search
  • Tutorials (mainly for referencing things like the chat system)
  • Old tutorials page (finding the above quickly)
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API Reference by far. There is not even a close second

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API Reference, definitely.

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Same goes for me… however my friends are also a decent resource :slightly_smiling_face:

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Definitely the API reference, that’s all I really use at the moment lol

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http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/String_manipulation
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/Mathematical_functions
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Camera_manipulation

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Anything that consists of developers live streaming how they program or develop what they’re working on.

Off the top of my head, @Locard @Crazyblox & @Dysplexus are some livestreamers I watch develop

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I always use the search function to directly go to the API reference so I can learn more about the methods, events and classes. It’s the most direct way to learn more. Unfortunately, a lot of API reference pages are missing documentation or examples.

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Blender rig exporter/animation importer – MoCap animations on ROBLOX

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ROBLOX API Reference
Roblox Wiki
Lua org
EgoMoose Articles
CodingMaths YouTube channel.

Probably got more, but those are the most relevant in my developer career.

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Similarly,
https://twitter.com/egomoose?lang=en

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I find Extra Credits to be essential when learning game development. Learning how to do stuff is great, but learning when and why to use it is just as important.

Game Design: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BkTruCmaBBZ8z6cP9KzPiX
Writing for Games: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5ATCznEwJx794x4RMuYNZLN
Games in Education: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BIUqSDPmfBuKjTN2QBv9wI

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I am a resource :sunglasses:

I also like @Anaminus’ github.io pages
https://anaminus.github.io/api/

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I don’t save anything. I just Google “roblox wiki >topic here<” since the site feels slow to navigate at times.

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For me when anyone who knows a little bit about programming wants to get into roblox/lua my goto is PIL:
http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

A book written by the chief architect of Lua, and available online for free? yes please.

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API and plugins.

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The Roblox namespace page is pretty helpful.
It tells you about the Roblox-native Lua APIs and functions that you can directly access from scripts.
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/Roblox_namespace

When I was an editor on the wiki, I worked really hard to make the API Class Reference a helpful tool for people who are looking for quick information about objects.
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class_reference

It’s not perfect by any means; examples are a bit scarce and it requires some trial and error to make things work right, but I did my best to provide a general idea of what each member does, and to provide some more contextual metadata for organization.

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I used to use old forum posts but since they’re gone I just ask others now

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