torchbear 🔥🐻 is an extremely fast and featureful Lua application framework. It gives you power of Rust with the simplicity of Lua.

Built-in Tools

• Actix Web HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.0 web servers and clients
• Tera Jinja template rendering
• Comrak Markdown output
• Libsodium Signatures and Encryption
• std::fs::* Filesystem operations
• std::collections::HashSet Set-theoretic operations
• Serde YAML and JSON serializing/deserializing
• UUID-rs UUID generation and verification
• Chrono Time/Date generation and verification
• Select-rs HTML scraping
• libgit2 Git repo creation, commit staging, and log access
• The Lua Debug Library traceback error messages

Installation

• Download the latest torchbear release.
• Unzip it in your application.
• Run torchbear.

Windows, Android, and Linux builds available for primary architectures. MacOS builds still to come. OS Pacakge Managers support coming soon - contributions welcomed.

Android users, install Termux for a full Linux envrionment.

Examples

Static Webserver

torchbear static webserver

Hello World App

• in init.lua

print("hello from torchbear")

• in Settings.toml

init = "init.lua"

• run torchbear