[topping your top post, just to be social]
I’m wondering about REST frameworks. My reading is that lua-http doesn’t really have url routing features and the kinds of API building tools you find in Node.JS, etc.
OpenResty/NGINX looks interesting as well, but again, it’s LuaJIT.
Nobody is going to load LuaRocks in our use case and so integration with the Luaverse is not a requirement. However, LuaRocks 3.1 does have some interesting features for building containers.
Sorry to ramble… :)
-Andrew