Wednesday, May 30, 2012

What web server to use for Lua web development


What web server (and why) should I use for Lua web development?



Source: Tips4all

5 comments:

  1. There are a few Lua-based webservers around:


    Xavante seems to be the most popular.
    Haserl is nice and small.
    Nanoki is not strictly a webserver, but a nice small pure Lua wiki engine worth studying. As for the Lua wikies, there is also Sputnik, which is fully featured and very flexible, but is a bit on the slow side.
    There is mod_lua (ex mod_wombat) if you prefer Apache. Looks like it would make it into the next Apache distribution as a core module.
    Note that it is not so hard to write a FastCGI Lua module.
    There is also Luv Lua MVC web-framework project (GitHub page). It is not mature yet, but may contain some interesting insights.


    Update. Some more frameworks to check out:


    Luvit: http://luvit.io/ (too node-like for my taste)
    ngx_lua module for nginx: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule
    TIR for mongrel2: http://tir.mongrel2.org/

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  2. We've been working on the ngx_lua module for nginx, which supports 100% non-blocking network traffic to mysql, PostgreSQL, memcached, other http services, and more, hence outstanding concurrency level and over-all performance :)

    http://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module

    and we're using it in production :)

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  3. The best web server I can think for lua web development is mongrel2. Take a look on TIR framework, which, IMHO, is the best lua use for web development these days.

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  4. For development, it can be handy to run a small test server. A good candidate in particular for Lua web development is the Xavante server which is part of the Kepler project. Aside from some of the supporting Kepler modules , Xavante itself is written in pure Lua.

    For production, the new mod_lua (which had been known as mod_wombat before the Apache team accepted it into the core set of modules) running on Apache would seem to be a well-respected choice.

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  5. there is as well the LuCI project [1]. which is the LuaConfigurationInterface, the web based mangement frontend for OpenWRT (embedded Linux).

    The LuCI guys wrote also a very small webserver, called lucittpd.
    LuCI is an MVC as well.
    And in production state ;)

    [1] http://luci.subsignal.org

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