CandyScript

CandyScript is a lightweight yet superfast language for forging small web servers and RestAPIs. It is inspired by littledivy/candyscript but does a lot more.

Features

• Line-by-line parser
• Relatively fast thanks to Nim's asynchttpserver
• Short and efficient
• A single binary for everything
• Interface with a SQLite database
• Fetch external URLs
• Mustache templates
• Get data from command lines
• Variable substitution system
• Authentication with http basic
• Sessions (though probably not that secure)

TODO

• Clean up the mess with variable substitution
• Easily grab data from FETCH requests
• Tests
• More examples
• Use httpbeast instead of asynchttpserver
• Make it robust, fast and secure

Example

Hello, World!

# this is a comment
GET / Hello, World!

For a more advanced usage, see the examples.

Building from source

Use the Nim compiler to build source code.

This code will run your candyscript server.

nimble build
./candyscript your_script.candy

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT