Web devopment in LuaIntroducing Sailor, a web MVC

framework in Lua

Etiene Dalcol@etiene_d

Why Lua?

➔ It’s a multiparadigm scripting language

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Why Lua?

➔ It’s a multiparadigm scripting language➔ It looks cool (I heard you could make games with it)

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Why Lua?

➔ It’s a multiparadigm scripting language➔ It looks cool (I heard you could make games with it)➔ It’s made in my home country (In my university to be more precise)

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Why Lua?

➔ It’s a multiparadigm scripting language➔ It looks cool (I heard you could make games with it)➔ It’s made in my home country (In my university to be more precise)➔ It has great benchmarks

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How to web?

➔ Apache2 => mod_lua ./configure --enable-lua

➔ NginX => openresty

➔ Xavante

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And what exactly is Sailor

➔ It’s an MVC web framework➔ Completely written in Lua➔ Compatible with Apache (mod_lua), Nginx

(OpenResty), Mongoose, Xavante and Lwan➔ Compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac➔ MIT License➔ Pre alpha v0.2 (Mars), preparing for 0.3

(Jupiter)

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What does it do?

Lua at client

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What’s bad about it

➔ Early development➔ Things are changing fast (backwards compatibility is not guaranteed until version 1.0)➔ It still lacks features➔ Documentation

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Getting Sailor!

$ luarocks install sailor$ sailor_create ‘My App’ /var/www$ cd /var/www/my_app$ lua start-server.lua

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Sailor!

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site.lua

index.lp

site.lua

index.lp

Etiene Dalcolsailorproject.org

github.com/Etiene/sailordalcol@etiene.net

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