Everything you can put in an fxmanifest.lua

#The minimum that works

fx_version selects the manifest schema. cerulean is current and is what you should use; adamant and bodacious are older and lack features. game can be gta5, rdr3 or common for something that runs on both.

fx_version 'cerulean'
game 'gta5'

author 'Your Name'
description 'What this resource does'
version '1.0.0'

client_script 'client.lua'
server_script 'server.lua'

#Script loading and order

Each list loads in the order you write it. This is not alphabetical and it is not by dependency graph — if config.lua defines something main.lua needs, config.lua goes first.

shared_script loads on both sides. It is the right place for a config table, and the wrong place for anything containing a secret, because clients receive it.

shared_scripts {
  '@ox_lib/init.lua',   -- another resource's file, loaded first
  'config.lua',
  'shared/*.lua',       -- glob, alphabetical within the glob
}

client_scripts {
  'client/main.lua',
  'client/menu.lua',
}

server_scripts {
  '@oxmysql/lib/MySQL.lua',
  'server/main.lua',
}

#NUI: HTML interfaces

ui_page names the entry point, and files lists everything the page is allowed to load. A file not listed there returns 404 to the browser with no server-side error, which is why a NUI that works locally shows a blank panel in game.

ui_page 'html/index.html'

files {
  'html/index.html',
  'html/style.css',
  'html/script.js',
  'html/assets/*.png',
  'html/fonts/*.woff2',
}

#Data files and streaming

data_file registers a game data file so the engine reads it. The stream folder is picked up automatically in cerulean, so you rarely need to declare it.

files {
  'vehicles.meta',
  'handling.meta',
}

data_file 'VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE' 'vehicles.meta'
data_file 'HANDLING_FILE'         'handling.meta'

-- only needed if your stream folder is somewhere unusual
-- this_is_a_map 'yes'

#Dependencies and load gating

dependency stops the resource starting until the named resource is running. dependencies takes a list. There is also a version form for gating on a server build.

dependency 'oxmysql'

dependencies {
  'ox_lib',
  'qb-core',
  '/server:12000',    -- requires artifact build 12000+
  '/onesync',         -- requires OneSync enabled
  '/gameBuild:3258',  -- requires this game build
}

#The full field list

#Why a resource refuses to start

• A syntax error in the manifest itself — it is Lua, so a missing comma inside a table is fatal. The console names the line.
• A referenced file that does not exist. Case matters on Linux and does not on Windows.
• A dependency that is not running, or is spelled differently from the folder name.
• A folder name with a space, or with characters other than letters, digits, dash and underscore.
• Two resources with the same folder name in different bracket folders. Only one will start.
• fx_version missing entirely — the resource is treated as an old-style one and almost nothing works.