--- title: This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My... description: A developer created a Neovim plugin that serves HTTP requests directly from editor buffers using pure Lua. The plugin leverages Neovim's libuv bindings for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-website-is-served-from-nine-neovim-buffers-on-my-old-thinkpad-rwyscog2r twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad | daily.dev og:description: A developer created a Neovim plugin that serves HTTP requests directly from editor buffers using pure Lua. The plugin leverages Neovim's libuv bindings for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-website-is-served-from-nine-neovim-buffers-on-my-old-thinkpad-rwyscog2r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rWyscoG2R.png og:image:alt: This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 10 min read · 60 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A developer created a Neovim plugin that serves HTTP requests directly from editor buffers using pure Lua. The plugin leverages Neovim's libuv bindings for asynchronous I/O and surprisingly outperforms Nginx in benchmarks due to LuaJIT's efficiency and NaN tagging optimization. The implementation serves a static website from nine buffers on a 2012 ThinkPad, with security measures including Docker containerization, AppArmor profiles, and restricted system calls. The setup demonstrates how text editors can be repurposed for unconventional tasks while maintaining good performance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andradei** · 4 upvotes > That's impressive, creative, insane, and funny all at the same time. **@kennethwedmorelund** · 4 upvotes > MAN, I love stuff like this - it's SO much "Why? 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