Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)

justine.lol

55 points·sylvain_kerkour··12 comments

I made the website for my wedding with Redbean, just for a bit of fun. It was a delightful experience. Deployment was just: upload one file, restart a process. I developed on my Mac, and deployed the executable, unchanged, to a Linux server. It just worked. Nice.

In case it's not clear it's the same single file that runs on all supported operating systems. One file, run anywhere.

Love this software.

Can't say I understand how it works in depth but as something to tinker with it's amazing. So clever.

I can already imagine people telling you to install certbot and putting Apache in front of this...

Not to be confused with https://www.redbeanphp.com/

Redbean is awesome

But then again, so is everything Justine builds.

Some examples of deployment in the wild would have helped?

Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.

Well, couldn't the same question be asked about using Python or Ruby within a server? It's scriptable, easier and faster to iterate with. Dynamic. You can execute Lua scripts in Redis. LuaJIT and other implementations can be incredibly fast and pretty fun to code in.

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

Well except a lot faster at runtime

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