BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework

https://bashsta.cc/

by elchief • 3 years ago

84 28 3 years ago

bashsta.cc

elchief2• 3 years ago

Not mine, just saw it today, and thought it was interesting

https://github.com/cgsdev0/bash-stack

dredmorbius2• 3 years ago

A description / example of what this actually does would be useful.

elchief2• 3 years ago

It's a real simple web framework that uses shell files to return responses

wruza2• 3 years ago

Examples: https://github.com/cgsdev0/bash-stack/tree/main/examples

Overview describes what it does, really. Sends stdout of shell scripts to a client through http, routing via folders. “What a complicated bs!” I thought about this principle back in the day. Sigh.

998244353• 3 years ago

So... basically like cgi_bin?

dredmorbius2• 3 years ago

Thank you!

replwoacause• 3 years ago

From the repo: “This project is intended for educational / entertainment purposes only. In its current implementation, it is riddled with security issues, and it would probably be extremely irresponsible to use this for any sort of production grade web service.

...having said that, if you happen to use it for anything, I'd love to hear about it!”

So looks like a toy project for a bit of fun. Would like to see an example of what it does anyway though.

b33j0r• 3 years ago

As of now, seems we’ve had too much fun with the demo. I didn’t get to see it.

The github page says “see the docs!” for all info, which appears to be (on its face) stored with the demo, heh. Fun one!

chii• 3 years ago

good old CGI is making a comeback.

fizx• 3 years ago

CGI was the OG serverless, because it was a process-per-request model until e.g. fastcgi came along.

Put scripts on an S3 backed filesystem, and as you grow, wrap them in a container, then an auto-scaling group. It might even work today!

I'm surprised I haven't seen more of this from the anti-Kubernetes crowd.

nurettin• 3 years ago

Maybe they aren't a fan of S3.

tempodox• 3 years ago

Can it harass my users with push notifications?

toastal• 3 years ago

Joke? Push notifications have a lot of valid use cases for web apps even if they are useless (or harmful) for web pages. The platform is shared between the two categories.

giantrobot• 3 years ago

Push notifications are cancer. Push notifications are used a hundred times more for spam than they are some above board legitimate purpose. Even legitimate users have marketing departments foaming at the mouth to push ads with them.

hkt• 3 years ago

More importantly, can it aggressively fingerprint them and supply adtech companies with an approximation of their identity?

ithkuil3• 3 years ago

How hard would it be to make bash be the only dependency (and not require tcpserver)?

Iirc bash has some built-in support for networking but perhaps it's only for clients?

micheljansen• 3 years ago

Back in the day all you needed was CGI and Bash (though Perl was often the better choice) http://underpop.online.fr/c/cgi/docs/creating-cgi-programs-w...

ithkuil3• 3 years ago

Yes but you needed a web server that then invoked your CGI binary. I meant a truly pure bash server

forgotpwd163• 3 years ago

A pure bash web server is indeed possible using a loadable builtin. See: https://github.com/dzove855/Bash-web-server (discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794979).

ithkuil3• 3 years ago

But this isn't pure bash. It requires a shared library you have to compile.

meepmorp• 3 years ago

Not sure about bash, but iirc, zsh’s tcp module has a proxy function to listen on a port and pass input to a shell command.

forgotpwd163• 3 years ago

Other similar projects require a CGI-capable web server. This one instead uses djb's tcpserver. Guess next step will be to drop any external dependencies.

BeefySwain• 3 years ago

dmux• 3 years ago

I was actually just playing around with AWK as a backend for CGI. Busybox provides both an AWK implementation as well as an httpd server that supports cgi hosting (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/webserver/http....).

AWK is definitely limited as a language, but IMO it’s a saner choice than going with BASH.

It’s also been interesting to integrate with SQLite by interfacing with it through AWK’s “pipe to variable” mechanism.

keyb1nd• 3 years ago

This is the best thing ever made for modern development

Woshiwuja• 3 years ago

This looks great lol

BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework

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