Openresty is underrated. I just don't understand why more people don't use it. It allows you to script nginx. How cool is that? Plus it comes with goodness of lua like the ability to return multiple values from a function which means that you can do something like
local res1,res2,res3 = ngx.location.capture_multi{
{"/api/1"},{"api/2"},{"ap1/3"}
}
The above function runs in a non blocking synchronous manner. No http is involved it is all done internally and it's really fast. It can be very helpful if you are making multiple api calls from your code. I personally use it along with couchdb and I have never been happier writing code :)
There are already a lot of modules for openresty. Not as many as node js but plenty (and of a very high quality). It also has a framework built on top of it called lapis (http://leafo.net/lapis/) so if you are used to mvc type of frameworks in other languages you should feel right at home with it.
Openresty is underrated. I just don't understand why more people don't use it. It allows you to script nginx. How cool is that? Plus it comes with goodness of lua like the ability to return multiple values from a function which means that you can do something like
local res1,res2,res3 = ngx.location.capture_multi{ {"/api/1"},{"api/2"},{"ap1/3"} }
The above function runs in a non blocking synchronous manner. No http is involved it is all done internally and it's really fast. It can be very helpful if you are making multiple api calls from your code. I personally use it along with couchdb and I have never been happier writing code :)
There are already a lot of modules for openresty. Not as many as node js but plenty (and of a very high quality). It also has a framework built on top of it called lapis (http://leafo.net/lapis/) so if you are used to mvc type of frameworks in other languages you should feel right at home with it.