I recently learned about Redbean, a single-file distributable web server authored by Justine Tunney. redbean is an open source webserver in a zip executable that runs on six operating systems. The basic idea is if you want to build a web app that runs anywhere, then you download the redbean.com file, put your .html and .lua files inside it using the zip command, and then you’ve got a hermetic app you can deploy and share. If the above sounds like magic that’s because it kind of is. Zip a ...
