nuPHP is a small Rust based web server for responding to HTTP requests with the Nushell language. You must have nu available in your path to run this webserver.

Use nu site/db/init.nu to create the database.

Use cargo run to start the webserver

See the site directory for the current example for how you could use this server to create a website.

Some notes on how it all fits together:

• The contents of the site/public directory will be available (via the web server) at /
• Non-Nushell files must have a file extension (not .nu) and will be served as static files.
• Nu files will be executed and the standard output will be sent as the response. Standard error will be printed to the console.
• Requests for paths without an extension will have .nu added automatically.
• All nu scripts are executed with $env.GET, $env.POST and $env.HEADERS available as variables.

Some cool observations:

• You can test the nu page scripts by running them directly with the $env.GET and $env.POST variables set, no complex mocking required!
• Since nu is table based, you can mostly just use normal nu code to interface with the database.

TODO:

• Add cookies for identifying sessions
• Optimize concurrency for session and session identifier
• Implement session and header parsing via nuphp.nu script
• Figure out a way to do file uploads
• Add a $COOKIE input/output variable
• file bug about highlighting for $env.REQUEST_PATH
• File highlight bug about # with nothing following it