fullmoon VS Camlistore

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.

There's also Perkeep [1], though it seems like development has slowed down on it in recent years.

[1]: https://perkeep.org/

You probably just want to pay the cost for hosted. But if you're set on running it yourself, https://perkeep.org/ is great

Perkeep

Not sure how actively it’s being developed but it sounds like perkeep is exactly the idea you’re looking for

So... it just occurred to me that you need to know about https://perkeep.org , I have been following it since the beginning when it was called Camlistore, and notably this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSzQIwXM1k ( from this page: https://perkeep.org/doc/ ).

If you want to live dangerously, this might eventually be useful: https://perkeep.org/