Improvement for Weblit web framework. #22
Description
Hello @creationix, hope you are doing great!
So far, most stable and only open source and running web framework based on Lua/Luvit is the Weblit. However, the development is far behind comparing to other language's web framework. As I am actively working with this framework, I have faced many lacking and many other missing features but the main problem is " Documentation / WIKI " for the framework. I am not very good developer like others but I am doing the things well from my side. Here a few things I have noticed and my request to improve the framework with. ( comparing to Node.JS > Express.JS, Python > Django )
- Improvement of the documentation of the framework is must. ( or at least a pre-made package which will install the basic route and other setup. ) [ I am already thinking to create one, soon will release it. ]
- Sub domain or sub port or similar administrator panel like Django or Express.JS would be a great idea!
- The weblit-static has a issue. When you place domain.name// ( means more than one "/" ) it response with a JSON. Which shouldn't be a thing for production servers.
- Having no "/" is also a good thing. We can have the system if you want to create or not create such method. something like
app.use(requre("redirect"))should remove extensive "/" from the link path. - Sub application would be a great idea!
- Weblit doesn't have build in render content system. However, I managed to file one render template in Luvit.io Render file guess, we should have a official HTML render template with syntex
{{..}}codeblock system like etLua or others. [ I already have modified one for that] - Having a session manager build in with weblit-cookies would be a great idea. For creating admin panel or user-session or other stuff. [ I have done similar one already here LeXinshou/WebSessionLua but it's not 100% accurate ]
- Route system can be improved with more dynamic path listening! ( optional )
NOTE: I have more in my mind but I don't want to make the whole thing so big to hard to read, during discussion, I will point out more of the stuff that need to be done or improvement.