RE > "an official list of approved Lua libraries", which could be searched and that would provide information on the strengths and weaknesses of the library P

RE > "an official list of approved Lua libraries", which could be searched and that would provide information on the strengths and weaknesses of the library Perhaps something to emulate could be https://djangopackages.org/ https://djangopackages.org/ which has repeatedly helped me with "how do I do X" questions in the context of Django web projects.