lux - Building blazing fast Web application

lux gets ?X performance of Express, ?X of Laravel.

See benchmark result of the same "blog" example:

• lux: ? #/sec
• Express: ? #/sec
• Laravel: ? #/sec

Install

• Install Luvit

  curl -L https://github.com/luvit/lit/raw/master/get-lit.sh | sh

• Install LuaRocks

  wget https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.3.tar.gz

  tar zxpf luarocks-2.4.3.tar.gz

  cd luarocks-2.4.3

  ./configure; make bootstrap

• Install rapidjson(optional)

  luarocks install rapidjson

• Install luasql(optional)

  luarocks install luasql-sqlite3

  luarocks install luasql-postgres

  luarocks install luasql-mysql

Usage

• hello.lua

local app = require("./lux/app").app:new()

app:get('/', function()
	return "hello"
end)
app:listen({port=8001})

print("Http Server listening at http://0.0.0.0:8001/")

Run:

luvit hello.lua

Benchmark

Modules

• Routing
• JSON
• Database
• Model
• View
• Controller
• Request
• Response
• Session
• URL
• Filter
• Authentication
• Logging
• i18n
• Scaffolding
• LuaRocks
• doc
• demo