openresty / openresty/resty-cli

`resty` REPL

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Description

Sometimes I just want to test something out in OpenResty's fork of LuaJIT, that doesn't necessarily involve the lua-nginx APIs (or other OpenResty components). For example FFI stuff.

In that case a REPL would be more helpful than resty -e ... because I could inspect and modify things in real-time rather than tweaking a long string.

It would only need to be pure LuaJIT, no nginx stuff.

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Research direction

Start by reading the existing resty -e command path and determine how it invokes OpenResty's LuaJIT. Define the interactive behavior around that entry point, keeping the REPL limited to pure LuaJIT without nginx or other OpenResty APIs; the work is done when users can inspect and modify values interactively.

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Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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