Planet Rational released Webscript.io today, and I think it will be of great interest to Corona developers. In short, Webscript.io provides absurdly simple scripting for the web in Lua.
Webscript.io enables you to write Lua scripts that will respond to HTTP requests by executing on our servers. (Amazon’s servers, actually.) Scripts can be as short as a simple return statement that produces a string or a JSON object, or as rich as a script that makes outgoing HTTP requests and accesses persistent storage.
Webscript.io makes it very convenient to respond to webhooks, and its builtin cron job mechanism makes it simple to do recurring work. To make your job easier, Webscript.io includes automatic logging capabilities that will capture all your script’s incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic as well as any logging instrumentation you embed in your scripts.
We were motivated to build Webscript.io because we often wanted a “simple web app”, but there was nothing simple about getting even the shortest program in the cloud. Everything from choosing a URL to uploading code to provisioning capacity all seemed too heavyweight for the task at hand. We simply wanted something lightweight like a script. Not finding anything like what we wanted, we decided to build something we wanted. We hope it’s something many people will find useful.
Please give http://webscript.io a try, and let us know what you think!
Sincerely,
The Folks at Planet Rational [import]uid: 111526 topic_id: 32518 reply_id: 332518[/import]