Sailor – Lua MVC web framework

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.

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