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Lactoserv: Lactoserv is a standalone "batteries included" web application server written in JavaScript using Node, and first published in 2023. It serves requests based on configured components (applications and services), a bunch of which are bundled with it in order to cover many common use cases. It also includes a toolkit for defining new components. Because of the rich set of bundled components, it can be used productively "out of the box" without any programming beyond defining a configuration file.

Lactoserv is also intended as a foundation for prototyping high-level operating system services. Watch this space!

And, though not the main point of it, Lactoserv is a deployable experiment to see just how far one can go in terms of directly serving network traffic (specifically HTTP-ish protocols) in Node, with minimal intermediation. It is actively run in production on a small number of public-facing websites, including this one.

• Source: https://github.com/danfuzz/lactoserv