Reluax

Crates.io Version

reluax lets you easily create dynamic websites in a custom dialect of Lua, inspired by JSX. The service has been written in Rust, and uses luajit as its Lua runtime for performance and ease of integration of other libraries.

Requirements

luajit

Installation

This project is available through GitHub releases as a prebuild binary, or from crates.io through cargo install reluax, if you have the Rust toolchain installed. Alternatively, it is packaged as a Nix flake: if you have Nix installed, you can nix run github:Duckonaut/reluax.

Usage

Commands:
  serve  Serve a directory of LuaX files in production mode
  build  Build a directory of LuaX files
  dev    Serve a directory of LuaX files in development mode
  new    Create a new project
  init   Initialize a new project in the current directory
  help   Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Examples:
  reluax serve
  reluax dev -P public/ -C luax/

To create an example project, run reluax new my-first-project.

Inspiration

The project was heavily inspired by Ben Visness' blog post, I made JSX for Lua (because I hate static sites), which I highly recommend reading.