actix-lua-web framework

[naturallymitchell]

This actix-lua-web framework gist has a more complex example that relies on serde-yaml and tera. Does it make sense?

[poga]

is the gist complete? I don't see anything related to serde-yaml or actix-lua.

[naturallymitchell]

yes. there are 2 content files, 2 template files, and 1 script file. here's a walkthrough of what I mean to show:

• the content files have file names of their UUID and unix atime and mtime
• they have a yaml header for metadata and a plain text body separated by a blank line
• the template files are jinja syntax meant to be rendered using tera
• they are json http responses, 1 for individual documents and 1 for listing a group of documents
• the script file is Lua pseudo code, with 2 chunks, meant to be called on every request
• the first chunk responds to requests for individual files, eg. /post/50ee670c-1e2a-4ed7-8558-1dd6a87dbe8e would read the content file with that uuid in the 'content' directory and render it using the document.json template
• the second chunk responds to requests for a list of content files, eg every file with type: post, and renders it using the document-list.json template

[poga]

Thanks for the elaboration. Yes. It's definitely possible to create something like this.

It can be a good example about how to write a conventional web framework on top of actix-lua. If anyone want to try, I'm willing to help.

[poga]

I've added an example about using pure-lua to build a basic framework: https://github.com/poga/actix-lua/tree/master/examples/lua-web.

[poga]

closing