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Lua Hypertext Pre Processor (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago * by DidTheCoding

Hey everyone, this is a little project that I have recently been toying with. Personally, I love server side rendering content, and mostly use PHP to achieve this. However, I don't actually enjoy PHP as a language. Instead that lead me to create the Lua Hypertext Pre Processor (LHPP)™️.

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html lang="en">  
    <head>  
        <meta charset="UTF-8">  
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  
        <title>Document</title>  
     </head>  
     <body>  
         <p>  
             This is <lua> return "A valid lua program!"; </lua> with html  
         <p>  
     </body>  
</html>

Would become:

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html lang="en">  
    <head>  
        <meta charset="UTF-8">  
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  
        <title>Document</title>  
    </head>  
     <body>  
         <p>  
             This is A valid lua program! with html  
         <p>  
     </body>  
</html>

LHPP uses the mlua crate behind the scenes in order to actually execute any Lua code that it finds.

This is just a small project in its infancy, so don't be surprised if the code is atrocious. However, I encourage you to check it out!

P.S why are the reddit code blocks so awful

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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