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author Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com>
date Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:13:32 -0600
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1 local Luan = require "luan:Luan.luan"
2 local error = Luan.error
3 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
4 local Http = require "luan:http/Http.luan"
5 local Shared = require "site:/lib/Shared.luan"
6 local head = Shared.head or error()
7 local header = Shared.header or error()
8
9
10 return function()
11 Io.stdout = Http.response.text_writer()
12 %>
13 <!doctype html>
14 <html>
15 <head>
16 <% head() %>
17 <title>Luan Tutorial</title>
18 </head>
19 <body>
20 <% header{[[<a href="docs.html">Documentation</a>]]} %>
21 <div content>
22
23 <h1>Luan Tutorial</h1>
24
25
26 <p>Create a file <b>hello.luan</b> containing:</p>
27
28 <pre>
29 %&gt;
30 Hello World
31 &lt;%
32 </pre>
33
34 <p>To run this, type <b>luan hello.luan</b> on the command line. This should print <b>Hello World</b>.</p>
35
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>
37
38 <pre>
39 local name = "Bob"
40 %&gt;
41 Hello &lt;%= name %&gt;
42 &lt;%
43 </pre>
44
45 <p>This should print <b>Hello Bob</b>. Now let's try a more conventional approach:</p>
46
47 <pre>
48 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
49 local print = Io.print
50
51 print("Hello World")
52 </pre>
53
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>
55
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>
57
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>
59
60 <p>Let's a make fancier version:</p>
61
62 <pre>
63 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
64 local print = Io.print
65
66 local function hello(name)
67 print("Hello "..name)
68 end
69
70 hello("Bob")
71 </pre>
72
73 <p>The <b>..</b> operator does concatenation. This will print <b>Hello Bob</b>.</p>
74
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:
76
77 <pre>
78 local Io = require "luan:Io.luan"
79 local Http = require "luan:http/Http.luan"
80
81 return function()
82 Io.stdout = Http.response.text_writer()
83 %&gt;
84 &lt;!doctype html>
85 &lt;html>
86 &lt;body>
87 Hello World
88 &lt;/body>
89 &lt;/html>
90 &lt;%
91 end
92 </pre>
93
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.</p>
95
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>
97
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.luan">hi2.luan</a> next. Remember to remove the <b>.luan</b> from the URL to run the code.</p>
99
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:
101
102 <pre>
103 luan luan:host/push.luan bob.s1.luan.software secret src
104 </pre>
105
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>
107
108 <p>Hopefully this short tutorial gave you an idea of how to use Luan to make a website.</p>
109
110 </div>
111 </body>
112 </html>
113 <%
114 end