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Redbean - single-file distributable web server

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  • robiR Offline
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    [red stuffed lobster logo]

    redbean

    single-file distributable web server

    redbean is an open source webserver in a zip executable that runs on six operating systems. The basic idea is if you want to build a web app that runs anywhere, then you download the redbean.com file, put your .html and .lua files inside it using the zip command, and then you've got a hermetic app you can deploy and share.

    redbean embeds Lua, SQLite, and MbedTLS into a fork() driven application server that benchmarks at 1.1 million qps on a personal computer. It's got a live bestline REPL with code completion and a UNIX module too, that lets you directly use the Cosmopolitan Libc system call interface. redbean furthermore provides sandboxing and system call tracing for security. This makes redbean a great fit for when you want to build an app that's vertically integrated into a single tiny file that runs on nearly all PCs and servers.

    Others have been taking this excellence to great heights:

    https://github.com/kissgyorgy/redbean-docker

    The smallest possible web server in Docker!
    Built from Redbean: https://redbean.dev/, a single-file distributable web server.

    The final container takes only 501 kB:

    $ docker images redbean-static
    REPOSITORY      TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED         SIZE
    redbean-static  latest      814da89a2fa7  16 minutes ago  501 kB
    

    or just 186 kB if you use the tinylinux version of Redbean:

    $ docker images redbean-tinylinux
    REPOSITORY         TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED        SIZE
    redbean-tinylinux  latest      0b98596e96d8  2 seconds ago  186 kB
    

    Examples

    There are a couple of example Dockerfiles in this repo if you want to build it yourself:

    • Dockerfile-multistage of how to produce a container from "scratch"
    • Dockerfile-tinylinux for the world record small version
    • Dockerfile-onbuild if you just want a scratch container

    Conscious tech

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