awesome-resty
is a list of OpenResty / Nginx modules, Lua libraries, and related resources.
- Web Site: http://openresty.org/
- Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openresty-en (Chinese List)
- Github Organization: https://github.com/openresty
- Lead Developer: @agentzh
- Create a New Issue where you describe the needed additions, deletions or changes.
- Fork this repository and make the changes, and create a pull request.
- Post a reply in the awesome-resty thread in openresty-en mailing list.
- Modules
- Libraries
- Core Libraries
- Web Frameworks
- Web Development Essentials
- Middleware and API Tools
- Templating
- Cryptography
- Networking
- Databases and Storages
- Message Queuing and Task Management
- Bar Codes and QR Codes
- Utilities
- Date and Time
- Compression
- Text Formats
- Document Formats
- Image Formats
- Localization
- Caching
- Metrics and Statistics
- Logging
- Web APIs
- Other Sources for Libraries
- Books and Tutorials
- Conferences, Workshops and Events
- See Also
Core modules come bundled in OpenResty package.
- ngx_openresty — Turning Nginx into a full-fledged Web App Server - Sources for OpenResty Bundle Generation
- lua-nginx-module — Embed the power of Lua into Nginx
- echo-nginx-module — An Nginx module for bringing the power of "echo", "sleep", "time" and more to Nginx's config file
- xss-nginx-module — Native support for cross-site scripting (XSS) in an nginx
- set-misc-nginx-module — Various set_xxx directives added to nginx's rewrite module (md5/sha1, sql/json quoting, and many more)
- encrypted-session-nginx-module — Encrypt and decrypt Nginx variable values
- srcache-nginx-module — Transparent subrequest-based caching layout for arbitrary nginx locations
- lua-upstream-nginx-module — Nginx C module to expose Lua API to ngx_lua for Nginx upstreams
- headers-more-nginx-module — Set and clear input and output headers...more than "add"!
- array-var-nginx-module — Add support for array variables to nginx config files
- memc-nginx-module — An extended version of the standard memcached module that supports set, add, delete, and many more memcached commands
- redis2-nginx-module — Nginx upstream module for the Redis 2.0 protocol
- rds-json-nginx-module — An nginx output filter that formats Resty DBD Streams generated by ngx_drizzle and others to JSON
- rds-csv-nginx-module — Nginx output filter module to convert Resty-DBD-Streams (RDS) to Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
- drizzle-nginx-module — An Nginx upstream module that talks to mysql and drizzle by libdrizzle
- ngx_postgres — Upstream module that allows Nginx to communicate directly with PostgreSQL database
- form-input-nginx-module — This is a nginx module that reads HTTP POST and PUT request body encoded in "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", and parse the arguments in request body into nginx variables.
- ngx_coolkit — Collection of small and useful nginx add-ons
Please also note that there is resty
command line client included in OpenResty bundle. The command line client sources can be found on Github.
- Please refer Nginx Documentation about the Core Nginx Modules.
- ngx_pagespeed (Github) — Automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx
- ModSecurity — Open Source Web Application Firewall
- NAXSI — NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX; NAXSI means Nginx Anti Xss & Sql Injection
Core Libraries are bundled in OpenResty package, and you don't need to separately install them.
- lua-resty-core - New FFI-based Lua API for the ngx_lua module
- lua-resty-upstream-healthcheck — Health Checker for Nginx Upstream Servers in Pure Lua
- lua-resty-string — String utilities and common hash functions for ngx_lua and LuaJIT
- lua-resty-lock — Simple nonblocking lock API for ngx_lua based on shared memory dictionaries
- lua-resty-lrucache — Lua-land LRU Cache based on LuaJIT FFI
- lua-resty-dns — DNS resolver for the Nginx Lua module
- lua-resty-upload — Streaming reader and parser for HTTP file uploading based on ngx_lua cosocket
- lua-resty-websocket — Lua WebSocket implementation for the ngx_lua module
- lua-resty-mysql — Non-blocking Lua MySQL client driver for ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-memcached — Lua memcached client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-redis — Lua Redis client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-redis-parser — Redis reply parser and request constructor library for Lua
- lua-rds-parser — Resty-DBD-Stream (RDS) parser for Lua written in C
- lua-cjson — Lua cJSON is a fast JSON encoding / parsing module for Lua
- Lapis — Lapis is a framework for building web applications using MoonScript or Lua that runs inside of a customized version of Nginx called OpenResty
- Lusty — Lua RESTful Web Application Framework, an extensible and speedy web framework
- GIN — A fast, low-latency, low-memory footprint, web JSON-API framework with Test Driven Development helpers and patterns
- Sailor — A Lua MVC Web Framework
- lua-resty-rack — A simple and extensible HTTP server framework for OpenResty
- MOOCHINE — A simple and lightweight web framework based on OpenResty
- sinatra-openresty — Sinatra ported to OpenResty framework
- lj-web — Lightweight Web Framework Based On ngx_openresty
- Gimlet Cocktail — A micro web application framework for OpenResty written in Moonscript inspired by Martini & Sinatra
- Ziggy Stardust — Ziggy Stardust (or just "stardust") is a simple nginx/Lua framework inspired by Sinatra, Express, and Mercury
- zLua — A Codeigniter like Lua framework based on OpenResty
- lua-resty-stack — OpenResty Simple Application Stack
- dodolu — A lightweight web framework based on OpenResty
- lua-resty-cookie — Lua library for HTTP cookie manipulations for OpenResty/ngx_lua
- lua-resty-session — Session library for OpenResty implementing Secure Cookie Protocol
- lua-resty-woothee — The Lua-Openresty implementation of Project Woothee, which is a multi-language user-agent strings parsers
- router.lua — A barebones router for Lua, it matches urls and executes lua functions
- lua-resty-mobile — This library parses HTTP headers and detects mobile device*
- Kong (GitHub) — KONG: Microservice Management Layer (Secure, Manage & Extend your APIs and Microservices)
- lua-resty-template — A Compiling (HTML) templating engine for Lua and OpenResty
- etlua — Embedded Lua templates
- Alternatives — Some alternative Lua templating solutions that may work just fine with OpenResty
- lua-resty-string — String utilities and common hash functions for ngx_lua and LuaJIT
- lua-resty-nettle — LuaJIT FFI bindings for Nettle (a low-level cryptographic library)
- lua-resty-murmurhash2 — LuaJIT MurmurHash 2 bindings to Nginx / OpenResty murmurhash2 implementation
- lua-resty-hmac — Lua driver for making and receiving hmac signed requests
- lua-resty-scrypt — LuaJIT FFI-based scrypt library for OpenResty
- lua-resty-rsa — RSA functions for LuaJIT
- lua-resty-http by @pintsized — Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua
- lua-resty-http by @liseen — Lua http client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-http by @DorianGray — Lua HTTP client driver for ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-http-simple — Simple Lua HTTP client driver for ngx_lua
- lua-resty-httpipe — Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua
- lua-resty-httpclient — Nonblocking Lua HTTP Client library for aLiLua & ngx_lua
- lua-httpcli-resty — Lua HTTP client module for OpenResty
- lua-resty-websocket — Lua WebSocket implementation for the ngx_lua module
- lua-resty-iputils — Utility functions for working with IP addresses in OpenResty
- lua-resty-readurl — Lua library for capturing urls, decoding, and logging results
- lua-resty-jsonrpc-batch — JSON-RPC 2.0 Batch Request protocol module for OpenResty
- lua-resty-limit-traffic — Lua library for limiting and controlling traffic in OpenResty/ngx_lua
- lua-resty-mysql — Non-blocking Lua MySQL client driver for ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-postgres — Nonblocking Lua PostgreSQL driver library for ngx_lua
- pgmoon — A pure Lua Postgres driver for use in OpenResy & more
- lua-resty-memcached — Lua memcached client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-redis — Lua Redis client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-redis-connector — Connection utilities for lua-resty-redis, making it easy and reliable to connect to Redis hosts, either directly or via Redis Sentinel
- lua-resty-cassandra (See also: Mashape Fork) — Pure Lua Cassandra client using CQL binary protocol
- lua-resty-riak — Lua riak protocol buffer client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-mongol — Native Lua Mongodb driver which supports both luasocket and ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-mongo — Lua mongodb client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-mongo — A simple Lua Mongo driver (a fork made to work with co-sockets)
- lua-resty-kyototycoon — Lua client driver for KyotoTycoon using its native wire protocol (OpenResty/ngx_lua)
- lua-nginx-tarantool — A driver for a NoSQL database in a Lua script Tarantool build on fast nginx cosockets
- lua-resty-ssdb — Lua ssdb client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API, SSDB is a leveldb server
- ledis-openresty — Lua LedisDB client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-fastdfs — Nonblocking Lua FastDFS driver library for ngx_lua
- openresty-statsd — A Lua module for OpenResty to send metrics to StatsD
- lua-resty-qless — Lua binding to Qless (Queue / Pipeline management) for OpenResty
- lua-resty-rabbitmqstomp — Lua RabbitMQ client library which uses cosocket api for communication over STOMP 1.2 with a RabbitMQ broker which has the STOMP plugin
- lua-resty-gearman — Lua gearman client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-kafka — Lua kafka client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-beanstalkd — Lua beanstalkd client driver for the ngx_lua based on the cosocket API
- lua-resty-ironmq — Simple IronMQ client for OpenResty
- lua-resty-QRcode — QR encode tool for ngx_lua
- lua-resty-QRDecode — QR decoder for ngx_lua
- lua-resty-fileinfo — LuaJIT FFI bindings to libmagic, magic number recognition library - tries to determine file types
- lua-resty-taglib - LuaJIT FFI bindings for TagLib - An Audio Meta-Data Library
- lua-resty-uuid — LuaJIT FFI bindings for libuuid, a DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library
These libraries are not build to using lua-nginx-module
s date time functions (except luatz) like ngx.today
, ngx.time
, ngx.now
, ngx.localtime
, or ngx.utctime
, but they may still come handy. At some point we may need a more "official" time library for OpenResty.
- luatz — A Lua library for time and date manipulation (has a fallback to
ngx.now
) - LuaDate — Lua Date and Time module for Lua 5.x
- SciLua Time Library — Library for the manipulation of dates and periods according to the Gregorian calendar, i.e. the internationally accepted calendar for most uses
- lua-resty-snappy — LuaJIT FFI bindings for Snappy, a fast compressor/decompressor
- lua-resty-hoedown — LuaJIT FFI bindings to Hoedown, a standards compliant, fast, secure markdown processing library in C
- lua-gumbo — Lua bindings for the Gumbo HTML5 parsing library, with a set of DOM APIs implemented in pure Lua
- lua-resty-libxl — LuaJIT FFI-based LibXL (Excel) library for OpenResty
- lua-resty-hpdf — LuaJIT FFI-based libHaru (PDF) library for OpenResty
- magick — Lua bindings to ImageMagick for LuaJIT using FFI
- lua-resty-gettext — LuaJIT FFI-based gettext library for OpenResty
- lua-resty-lrucache — Lua-land LRU Cache based on LuaJIT FFI
- Ledge — A Lua application for OpenResty, providing HTTP cache functionality for Nginx, using Redis as a cache / metadata store
- LUAMETER — A Lua module for Nginx that records and provides key status and performance metrics, right from within Nginx and in real-time (Proprietary)
- ngxtop — Real-Time metrics for nginx server
- lua-resty-logger-socket — Raw-socket-based Logger Library for Nginx (based on ngx_lua)
- lua-nginx-logging — Logging utilities for Nginx written in Lua
- lua-resty-logger — Custom Logger Library for OpenResty
- lua-resty-github — Lua library for using the github api in the ngx_lua nginx module
- lua-resty-hipchat — Lua library for using the hipchat api
- lua-resty-aws — AWS signature V4 library for OpenResty + Lua
- lua-resty-s3 — Lua driver for uploading content to Amazon S3
- lua-resty-paypal — Lua Paypal client using express checkout for OpenResty
- lua-resty-17monip — 17MonIP parsing library for ngx_lua
- lua-resty-upyun — Upyun cloud-based platform
- LuaRocks / MoonRocks Repository (Search for resty libraries in LuaRocks)
- Github Search for lua-resty-* Libraries
- Lua Toolbox
- luapower — Lua, JIT, batteries
- List of Available LuaJIT Packages
- List of Available LuaJIT FFI Bindings
- OpenResty Best Practices (GitBook) (Chinese, use e.g. Google Translate)
- agentzh's Nginx Tutorials
- Definitely an OpenResty Guide
- The Latest and Greatest from ngx_lua: New Features & Tools (Summary, Slides, PDF, Video)
- Nginx Configuration Snippets — A collection of useful Nginx configuration snippets