Sailor is a Lua MVC web framework.
It is compatible with Apache with mod_lua or mod_pLua, Nginx with ngx_lua, Lwan, Lighttpd with mod_magnet, or any CGI-enabled web server, like Civetweb, Mongoose and Xavante, if CGILua is present.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Compatible with Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2 and LuaJIT. (5.3 compatibility so far untested).
- Luarocks setup.
- Runs over Apache2 (with mod_lua), NginX (openresty), Mongoose, Lighttpd, Xavante and Lwan web servers.
- Using Windows, Mac or Linux systems.
- Compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and other databases supported by the luasql library.
- MVC structure.
- Parsing of Lua pages.
- Routing.
- Basic Object-relational mapping.
- Validation.
- Transactions.
- App comes already shipped with Bootstrap.
- Include, redirect.
- Sessions, cookies.
- Login module.
- Easy deployment (unix only) -> sailor create “app name” /dir/to/app.
- Form generation.
- Lua at client (possible through a Lua=>JS virtual machine deployed with the app).
- Friendly urls.
- Inspect function for better debugging => similar to a var dump.
- Custom 404 pages.
- Relations.
- Model generation (reading from DB).
- CRUD generation (reading from model).
- Theme and layout (now you can have multiple layouts within a theme. e.g. 1-column and 2-column).
- Integration with Busted for unit and functional tests for your app.
Website: github.com/sailorproject/sailor
Support:
Developer: Etiene Dalcol
License: MIT License
Sailor is written in Lua. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Lua Web Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| OpenResty | Turns Nginx into a Full-Fledged Scriptable Web Platform |
| Lapis | Web framework for Lua/MoonScript supporting OpenResty or http.server |
| Fullmoon | Fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean |
| Turbo | Framework built for LuaJIT 2 |
| Luvit | Node.JS for the Lua Inventor |
| Vanilla | OpenResty Lua MVC web framework |
| Sailor | Lua MVC web framework |
| Orbit | MVC web framework for Lua |
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