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382 | 1 local Io = require "luan:Io" |
2 local Html = require "luan:Html" | |
3 local Http = require "luan:web/Http" | |
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4 local Shared = require "site:/Shared" |
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12 <% Html.simply_html_head() %> |
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13 <title>Luan Tutorial</title> |
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17 <div container> | |
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18 <% Shared.header() %> |
382 | 19 <h1 margin-bottom="1em">Luan Tutorial</h1> |
20 | |
21 | |
22 <p>Create a file <b>hello.luan</b> containing:</p> | |
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24 <p><tt><pre><%=Html.encode[[ | |
25 %> | |
26 Hello World | |
27 <% | |
28 ]]%></pre></tt></p> | |
29 | |
30 <p>To run this, type <b>luan file:hello</b> on the command line. This should print <b>Hello World</b>.</p> | |
31 | |
32 <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> | |
33 | |
34 <p><tt><pre><%=Html.encode[[ | |
35 name = "Bob" | |
36 %> | |
37 Hello <%= name %> | |
38 <% | |
39 ]]%></pre></tt></p> | |
40 | |
41 <p>This should print <b>Hello Bob</b>. Now let's try a more conventional approach:</p> | |
42 | |
43 <p><tt><pre> | |
44 local Io = require "luan:Io" | |
45 local print = Io.print | |
46 | |
47 print("Hello World") | |
48 </pre></tt></p> | |
49 | |
50 <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"</b> is the same as <b>require("luan:Io")</b>. Both <b>require</b> and <b>print</b> are functions.</p> | |
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52 <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</b>" and "<b>file:hello</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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54 <p>Luan starts with only two defined functions: <b>require</b> and <b>java</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> | |
55 | |
56 <p>Let's a make fancier version:</p> | |
57 | |
58 <p><tt><pre> | |
59 local Io = require "luan:Io" | |
60 local print = Io.print | |
61 | |
383 | 62 function hello(name) |
382 | 63 print("Hello "..name) |
64 end | |
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66 hello("Bob") | |
67 </pre></tt></p> | |
68 | |
69 <p>The <b>..</b> operator does concatenation. This will print <b>Hello Bob</b>.</p> | |
70 | |
71 <p>Now let's make a web page. First we need a directory for our website. So create a directory <b>site</b>. In this directory, create a file <b>hi.luan</b> containing: | |
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73 <p><tt><pre><%=Html.encode[[ | |
74 local Io = require "luan:Io" | |
75 local Http = require "luan:web/Http" | |
76 | |
77 function service() | |
78 Io.stdout = Http.response.text_writer() | |
79 %> | |
80 <html> | |
81 <body> | |
82 Hello World | |
83 </body> | |
84 </html> | |
85 <% | |
86 end | |
87 ]]%></pre></tt></p> | |
88 | |
89 <p>Now go back to the parent directory and do <b>luan luan:web/serve file:site</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.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">http://localhost:8080/hi</a> then you will run the program which will generate the web page.</p> | |
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91 <p>The Luan webserver looks for function named <b>service</b> in the file and calls it to generate the page. Code of the form <b><%=Html.encode[[%>...<%]]%></b> writes its output to <b>Io.stdout</b> which by default is the standard output of the command line. So in <b>service</b> one usually starts by setting <b>Io.stdout</b> to a <tt>text_writer</tt> which writes its output to the HTTP response (to the web browser).</p> | |
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93 <p>You can find this example and others in the <a href="examples">examples directory</a>. Take a look at <a href="examples/hi2.luan">hi2.luan</a> next. Remember to remove the <b>.luan</b> from the URL to run the code. And by the way, you can see the source for this page at <a href="tutorial.html.luan">tutorial.html.luan</a>.</p> | |
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401 | 95 <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.luanhost.com</b>. If you don't have a domain, just use a domain like <b>bob.s1.luanhost.com</b> (anything of the form <b>*.s1.luanhost.com</b>). Assuming your directory is <b>site</b> and you will use the password <b>secret</b>, do the following from the command line: |
382 | 96 |
97 <p><tt><pre> | |
98 luan luan:host/push bob.s1.luanhost.com secret site | |
99 </pre></tt></p> | |
100 | |
101 <p>The form is <b>luan luan:host/push 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 domain password</b>.</p> | |
102 | |
103 <p>Hopefully this short tutorial gave you an idea of how to use Luan to make a website.</p> | |
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105 </div> | |
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107 <% Html.simply_html_body_bottom() %> |
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108 </body> |
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109 </html> |
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382 | 111 end |