Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)

  • I made the website for my wedding with Redbean, just for a bit of fun. It was a delightful experience. Deployment was just: upload one file, restart a process. I developed on my Mac, and deployed the executable, unchanged, to a Linux server. It just worked. Nice.

  • In case it's not clear it's the same single file that runs on all supported operating systems. One file, run anywhere.

  • Love this software.

    Can't say I understand how it works in depth but as something to tinker with it's amazing. So clever.

  • I can already imagine people telling you to install certbot and putting Apache in front of this...

  • Not to be confused with https://www.redbeanphp.com/

  • Redbean is awesome