I can recommend that people check out Lune [1], it's a Luau runtime which includes a small but nice standard library. It's very easy to create something like a webserver in it. [2]

[1]: https://lune-org.github.io/docs/

[2]: https://lune-org.github.io/docs/the-book/5-networking/#runni...

My entire personal website runs on a fork of Lune! Only change is a (very jank) crate I wrote to add SQLite.