ok-web is a platform for serving Web applications written in K.

This means that you can write Web services/applications in the K programming language, making use of the oK interpreter.

Usage

Any .k files in the current working directory where web.js (the server) is invoked will be served.

For example, if you have index.k, then you may browse to http://localhost:8080/index.k to see the result.

The server serves on port 8080 by default, but this is changeable in web.js.

API

All of oK's features are available, with some modifications:

Monadic 0: reads from files on disk as usual.

Dyadic 0: both writes to the response stream (given an empty symbol), and writes to files on disk (given a path name).

Examples:

"foo.txt" 0: "Hi!" / write foo.txt
0:"foo.txt" / read foo.txt
`0:"Hello World!" / display Hello World! to the browser
`0:0N / Send error code 500 (Internal Server Error) as a response

Some useful globals about the request are bound by default, including:

• path returns the path -- e.g. /index.k
• host is the Host HTTP header -- e.g. localhost:8080
• query returns a K dictionary containing either the decoded query string in the case of GET requests, or the decoded urlencoded POST data for POST requests.

For a more complete example of using this, see kukai, a minimalistic pastebin written in K using ok-web.