Do you ever wish you had a bulletproof programmable reverse proxy?

Maybe you want to pull a Cloudflare and cache some content or do some magic wildcard ssl-ing.

It used to be you had to write you own Node.js based reverse proxy or figure out how to build nginx with lua and other-module support.

Well fret no longer. Open Resty is here.

I admit, the docs are odd and it's maintained by some dudes in China. That said, it's awesome.

If you're on a mac you can homebrew from my recipe with these commands:

brew tap nathantsoi/homebrew-resty
brew install open-resty

Once you've brewed up, grab an example script such as this one:

mycoolprogram.conf

worker_processes  1;   # we could enlarge this setting on a multi-core machine
error_log  logs/error.log warn;

events {
    worker_connections  128;
}

http {
    server {
        listen       8080;
        server_name  localhost;

        location = / {
            content_by_lua '
                foo.say("hello, awesome!")
            ';
        }
    }
}

and run it:

openresty -c pwd/mycoolprogram.conf