introduction

This article shows some techniques for getting comfortable pulling apart Iguana apps to understand how they work. This is useful for a number of reasons:

1. There are lots of good techniques and tricks used to put these apps together which are helpful to improve your knowledge of Lua and leveraging the translator.
2. You can use parts of these apps as building blocks for your own solutions to problems.
3. If you want to alter these apps you’ll need to know how they tick.

We’ll start by looking at navigating through the back end Lua code of these applications.