nodelua

nodelua is an attempt to bring the idea of asynchronous programming based on event loop like nodejs into the realm Lua programming lnagugae.

For more details please refer to documentation inside docs/.

Compilation & running

You need the following dependencies in order to compile the code:

• liblua5.3-0
• liblua5.3-dev
• libuv1
• libuv1-dev

then in the main directory run make.

Usage

nodelua [<file>] If no <file> is provided, the program reads from its stdin.

You can find more usage examples inside tests/ directory.

Example

local tcp = require "lib.tcp"

server = tcp:new()
server:bind("0.0.0.0", 8000)

server:listen(function(server, status)
   -- error, must close the server socket & free memory
   if status < 0 then
      server:close(function(server)
         error("Error occured during listening")
      end)
   end

   -- otherwise accept new client
   local client = server:accept()
   client:read(function(client, nread, data)
      if nread > 0 then
         print(string.format("Client '%s' said: %s", client, data))
      elseif nread < 0 then
         client:close(function(client)
            print(string.format("Client '%s' closed the connection", client))
         end)
      end
   end)
end)