Added server.lua

xyproto · xyproto · commit 1b3542d20fcf · 2015-06-05T16:21:39.000+02:00
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ This is the React comment box example from [the React tutorial](http://facebook.
 
 There are several simple server implementations included. They all serve static files from `public/` and handle requests to `comments.json` to fetch or add data. Start a server with one of the following:
 
+### Lua
+
+```
+go get github.com/xyproto/algernon
+algernon server.lua
+```
+
 ### Node
 
 ```sh
diff --git a/server.lua b/server.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--
+-- For use with Algernon / Lua
+-- 
+-- Project page: https://github.com/xyproto/algernon
+-- Web page: http://algernon.roboticoverlords.org/
+--
+
+-- Set the headers
+content("application/javascript")
+setheader("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
+
+-- Use a Redis list for the comments
+comments = List("comments")
+
+-- Handle requests
+if method() == "POST" then
+  -- Add the form data to the comment list, as JSON
+  comments:add(JSON(formdata()))
+else
+  -- Combine all the JSON comments to a JSON document
+  print("["..table.concat(comments:getall(), ",").."]")
+end
