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Algernon is a webserver.

Using Lua Local Require

From the comments:

-- loadscriptdir.lua
local r = require
local pp = package.path
require = function(m)
    package.path = scriptdir() .. "/?.lua;" .. pp
    return r(m)
end

-- serverconf.lua
OnReady(function()
    require("loadscriptdir")
end)

TODO: I have to figure out if this works for loading .so files also.

Frictionless workflow to use algernon powered website

• unless I want to compile a page and publish it, I don't need to run: make full.
• run make easy as a cronjob on the server and have it publish to the www every 15 minutes
• run make full as a cronjob on the server and have it publish to the www every hour

Redbean single-file distributable web server is built using cosmopolitan.

Redbean's home page does a great job of explaining what the software does:

rebean is an open source webserver in a zip executable that runs on six operating systems. The basic idea is if you want to build a web app that runs anywhere, then you download the redbean.com file, put your .html and .lua files inside it using the zip command, and then you've got a hermetic app you can deploy and share.

redbean embeds Lua, SQLite, and MbedTLS into a fork() driven application server that benchmarks at 1.1 million qps on a personal computer. It's got a live bestline REPL with code completion and a UNIX module too, that lets you directly use the Cosmopolitan Libc system call interface. redbean furthermore provides sandboxing and system call tracing for security. This makes redbean a great fit for when you want to build an app that's vertically integrated into a single tiny file that runs on nearly all PCs and servers.

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Deploying a redbean app to Fly from Simon Willison’s TILs

Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver: rpdillon.net; Nov 2022.

shmup/awesome-cosmopolitan: List of Cosmopolitan Libc related resources and projects

Fullmoon is a Fast and minimalistic Redbean-based Lua web framework in one file by Paul Kulchenko, the creator of ZeroBraneStudio, a Lua IDE.