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by peterfschaadt 4845 days ago
It's very easy to extend Nginx with Lua [1] to create a custom Nginx setup for fast API endpoint authentication, diverting beta users, or handling sockets. I'm hoping to see Lua continue to grow and solve some of its shortcomings like unicode support and pattern matching.

[1] https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module