You should look at Racket. Racket is a Scheme-like[0] Lisp that aims to be "batteries-included". It includes things like a web-server out-of-the-box.

[0] it is technically a hybrid of R5RS and R6RS, so pedants can argue over whether it is really "a Scheme" or not.

It's not and it's not about being pedantic. Racket changed its name nearly a decade ago and, at that point, it already wasn't Scheme either.

I have a post about where Racket (and Clojure) come from: https://klibert.pl/posts/clojure_and_racket_history.html

Not exactly what you're looking for, but take a look at my post: https://klibert.pl/posts/racket_quickie.html

It shows a little JSON-based REST service which stores a list of messages and allows listing them and adding to them. With more URLs you'd likely use something like this: http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html for dispatch, instead of hand-coded function.

It's notable for only using stdlib, no additional packages (beyond purely syntactic, Clojure-like, `~>` support).

To be honest, the APIs exposed in the stdlib feel kind of awkward - like using SimpleHTTPServer in Python. Still, it's just a couple of lines and easy (automatic, in this example) in-process concurrency is not bad.

https://github.com/dak0rn/Zwitscher

Feel free to shout me questions or remarks.

Edit: Here's a simple endpoint that uses a service which then works with the database;

https://github.com/dak0rn/Zwitscher/blob/master/src/zwitsche...