Re: [openresty-en] Tutorial single page web pages with openresty/lua

agentzh · 2014-04-23T03:08:08+00:00

Hello! On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Abdul Rahman Madeni wrote: > In openresty-1.5.8.1, I did a (init.lua)lua file which include the following > &g...

Re: [openresty-en] Tutorial single page web pages with openresty/lua

agentzh

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Mike wrote:
> Could You point to a tutorial how to create single page web pages with
> openresty/lua.
> Is this one of the use cases of openresty, where lua as a scripting language
> shines?
>

We (CloudFlare) use OpenResty/Lua online for web page templating.
There are quite some opensource templating libraries for Lua out
there. For example, CloudFlare is currently using the following
library:

    https://code.google.com/p/slt/

But this does not mean OpenResty officially recommends this particular
library, so feel free to pick up your favorite one from Google search
or something like that.

Basically, when you generate a page with your template, you can just
call ngx_lua's Lua API function ngx.print() to emit it to the client.
It is that simple.

Regards,
-agentzh

aapo.talvensaari

On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:08:08 PM UTC+3, agentzh wrote:

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Mike wrote:
> Could You point to a tutorial how to create single page web pages with
> openresty/lua.
> Is this one of the use cases of openresty, where lua as a scripting language
> shines?
>

Basically, when you generate a page with your template, you can just
call ngx_lua's Lua API function ngx.print() to emit it to the client.
It is that simple.

I have collected a list of Lua templating engines here:

https://github.com/bungle/lua-resty-template#alternatives

If you know that there are others, please let me know, and I will add it to the list.