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1 local Luan = require "luan:Luan.luan"
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2 local error = Luan.error
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3 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
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4 local Http = require "luan:http/Http.luan"
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5 local Shared = require "site:/lib/Shared.luan"
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6 local head = Shared.head or error()
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7 local docs_header = Shared.docs_header or error()
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10 return function()
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11 Io.stdout = Http.response.text_writer()
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12 %>
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13 <!doctype html>
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14 <html>
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15 <head>
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16 <% head() %>
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17 <title>Luan Tutorial</title>
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18 </head>
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19 <body>
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20 <% docs_header() %>
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21 <div content>
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23 <h1>Luan Tutorial</h1>
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26 <p>Create a file <b>hello.luan</b> containing:</p>
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28 <pre>
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29 %&gt;
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30 Hello World
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32 </pre>
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34 <p>To run this, type <b>luan hello.luan</b> on the command line. This should print <b>Hello World</b>.</p>
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36 <p>The syntax here is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages">JSP</a>. Let's change it a little:</p>
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38 <pre>
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39 local name = "Bob"
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40 %&gt;
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41 Hello &lt;%= name %&gt;
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42 &lt;%
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43 </pre>
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45 <p>This should print <b>Hello Bob</b>. Now let's try a more conventional approach:</p>
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47 <pre>
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48 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
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49 local print = Io.print
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51 print("Hello World")
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52 </pre>
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54 <p>In Luan, a function call with one string argument doesn't require parenthesis, so <b>print("Hello World")</b> is the same as <b>print "Hello World"</b> and <b>require "luan:Io.luan"</b> is the same as <b>require("luan:Io.luan")</b>. Both <b>require</b> and <b>print</b> are functions.</p>
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56 <p>The <b>require</b> function takes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier">URI</a> as an argument. Examples of URIs are "<b>luan:Io.luan</b>" and "<b>file:hello.luan</b>". <b>require</b> is used to import a module, which is returned from the <b>require</b> function call. In the case above, we assign the module to the local variable <b>Io</b>. The function <b>print</b> is a member of this module. We could have done <b>Io.print("Hello World")</b> but instead we chose to assign <b>print</b> to a local variable and use that to call the function.</p>
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58 <p>Luan starts with only one defined function: <b>require</b>. You will use <b>require</b> to import whatever you need. This is a little more work, but makes it clear in each file where each function comes from.</p>
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60 <p>Let's a make fancier version:</p>
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62 <pre>
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63 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
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64 local print = Io.print
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66 local function hello(name)
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67 print("Hello "..name)
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68 end
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70 hello("Bob")
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71 </pre>
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73 <p>The <b>..</b> operator does concatenation. This will print <b>Hello Bob</b>.</p>
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75 <p>Now let's make a web page. First we need a directory for our website. So create a directory <b>src</b>. In this directory, create a file <b>hi.html.luan</b> containing:
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78 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
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79 local Http = require "luan:http/Http.luan"
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81 return function()
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82 Io.stdout = Http.response.text_writer()
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84 &lt;!doctype html>
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86 &lt;body>
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87 Hello World
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88 &lt;/body>
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89 &lt;/html>
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94 <p>Now go back to the parent directory and do <b>luan luan:http/serve.luan src</b>. This will run the Luan web server on port 8080. Try going to <a href="http://localhost:8080/">http://localhost:8080/</a>. You should see the directory. If you click on <b>hi.html.luan</b> you will see the source. But if you remove the <b>.luan</b> and just go to <a href="http://localhost:8080/hi.html">http://localhost:8080/hi.html</a> then you will run the program which will generate the web page. In fact the page that you are currently looking at <b>tutorial.html</b> is generated from <a href="tutorial.html.luan">tutorial.html.luan</a>.</p>
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96 <p>The Luan webserver expects the file to return a function and calls it to generate the page. Code of the form <b>%&gt;...&lt;%</b> writes its output to <b>Io.stdout</b> which by default is the standard output of the command line. So in the returned function one usually starts by setting <b>Io.stdout</b> to a <code>text_writer</code> which writes its output to the HTTP response (to the web browser).</p>
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98 <p>You can find this example and others in the <a href="examples/">examples directory</a>. Take a look at <a href="examples/hi2.html.luan">hi2.html.luan</a> next. Remember to remove the <b>.luan</b> from the URL to run the code.</p>
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100 <p>So now you have built your website and you want to publish it to the web. If you have your own domain, create a CNAME record for it pointing to <b>s1.luan.software</b>. If you don't have a domain, just use a domain like <b>bob.s1.luan.software</b> (anything of the form <b>*.s1.luan.software</b>). Assuming your directory is <b>src</b> and you will use the password <b>secret</b>, do the following from the command line:
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102 <pre>
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103 luan luan:host/push.luan bob.s1.luan.software secret src
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106 <p>The form is <b>luan luan:host/push.luan domain password directory</b>. If you change your site, just run this again and your site will be updated. To delete your site, do <b>luan luan:host/delete.luan domain password</b>.</p>
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108 <p>Hopefully this short tutorial gave you an idea of how to use Luan to make a website.</p>
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110 </div>
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