Openresty is fantastic. On a static website I did last year I implemented some basic login with it and some Elasticsearch full text search. If you just need some very simple REST API and don&#x27;t want to start with a full blown backend server you can just script some pretty powerful stuff with it.<p>Since a few weeks ago Openresty also has &quot;..._by_lua_block&quot; directives that allow you to just write some lua straight into the config without having to escape the lua code:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openresty&#x2F;lua-nginx-module#synopsis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openresty&#x2F;lua-nginx-module#synopsis</a><p>A more comprehensive guide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openresty.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openresty.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.ht...</a>