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title: Lantern
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repo: RealOrangeOne/lantern
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subtitle: Write a web server in almost any language.
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Lantern is a generic web server which wraps any application and allows it to respond to HTTP requests. The request body and headers are passed to `stdin` as JSON, and anything sent to `stdout` is returned to the client.
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Is this useful? Not really.
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Isn't this basically just [CGI](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/common-gateway-interface-cgi/)? Yeah kinda.
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Should this be used for production deployments? Definitely not!
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It's just a fun experiment with [`sanic`](https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and async programming in its early days.
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