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From start to finish, the web application development process can be complicated and time consuming. Once the idea has locked itself into your mind, the next step logically is to determine the proper tools for the job. You begin looking into web servers or maybe you already have one in mind that you prefer such as lighttpd.
Once that is done, you may have an idea already of the framework you'll be using. If the application is large, you have several options. You may have used Ruby on Rails, or Django. Those are great solutions to the challenges that many applications face.
Alternatively, your idea may require significantly less overhead than what is provided by those frameworks by default. You can hack away at your configuration or you could use a micro web framework, such as Slim or Flask. Those are some developers go-to frameworks when developing RESTful APIs.
All of these options are great! However the key element missing in all of the most popular frameworks is one that has frustrated you for many moons. The thing missing is that you love Lua! You may have written a few indie games using LÖVE or even scaled a RESTful API to handle hundreds of requests a second with nginx and Open Resty. That's great! I'd like to introduce an alternative that requires less time and effort to develop and deploy. A framework for minimalists, you could say. Introducing kolba.
It's designed to be fast, lightweight, easy to use, simple to deploy and fun! I hope that in the coming months we can deliver on these goals effectively and I look forward to seeing the growth of this project and its community. Check out the rest of this wiki, read our suggested materials, pull the project, fork it, send some pull requests and help us create amazing content for kolba. If you've built an application with this framework, we want to hear from you!
Feel free to join us on #kolba (freenode). There you can get help, offer suggestions, or just chat. Recognized contributors and members of the project will have voice flags set.