fullmoon VS openresty

You can use the excellent fullmoon framework that takes care of a lot for you

https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

Then using lua is not much different than python/flask

My goal is similar to Joseph's (a platform for local first applications using CRDTs), but the approach is slightly different, as I'm building it based on SQLite synchronization using its session extension (https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html) as the encoding mechanism. I plan to incorporate this sync functionality into my web framework (https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon) to allow any application built with it to become "sync-enabled" with just a couple of additional lines of code.

Found it whilst checking out a web framework specifically for redbean: https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

This may be of interest to you then: https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

I've been having a lot of fun with this developing tiny webapps using Fullmoon[1]. I love Lua, but I frequently bounce between a Windows PC and a Linux PC. Having redbean + Fullmoon has made it a breeze switching back and forth without having to deal with system Lua installs. SQLite and the thorough amount of built-ins[2] is also a dream.

[1] https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

[2] https://redbean.dev/#functions

Yes, that register patch may be needed on some Linux systems; I'll add this to the documentation.

Redbean can't use the system Lua, so it comes bundled with its own Lua interpreter (Lua 5.4; there is also work being done to allow LuaJIT or Luau to be embedded instead).

The modules need to be put in the .lua directory within redbean archive; redbean searches within its archive, so you don't need to set LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH. I have instructions on how to get examples working included in the examples (https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon/tree/more-links#examp...) section.

In terms of the size, this includes MbedTLS and SQLite, so if you don't need those modules, you can compile redbean without them, which should reduce the size considerably.

OpenResty? Open.

Anyways, I recommend you check out OpenResty’s website (https://openresty.org) first. OpenResty offers binary packages, but you can also compile from source code. I used the latter option (because I have an obsession with compiling stuff from scratch), and it didn’t take me long to do it, about 4-5 minutes.

Varnish somewhat predates Nginx. Varnish has VCL, Varnish Configuration Language, giving flexible "edge" rule-based features. On the other hand, OpenResty, an open-source fork of Nginx, does a similar thing with a Lua-based language.

> Is Lua backend-able?

Yes and some of the largest web infrastructures in the world run on it! I'm not sure if it's still true, but it's my understanding the CloudFlare runs it at the edge. I personally know of several other very _large services_ running it at massive scale.

[0] https://openresty.org

Okay.