[OpenWrt Wiki] Accessing LuCI web interface securely
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userNov 10, 2021 · This guide is just about setting up a local port forwarding to LuCI web interface. This setup will forward all traffic passing through port 8000 from 127.0.0.1 on your local machine (desktop or laptop) to port 80 of your OpenWrt device, which has a local address of 127.0.0.1. You may understand better by viewing this graph.
Web interface overview - OpenWrt Wiki
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userAug 02, 2021 · JUCI is modern web interface developed for OpenWRT-based embedded devices. It is built using HTML5 and angular.js and uses websockets for communicating with a compact and fast Lua backend running on the embedded device. You can build both the frontend application and the backend server independently of each other and use them separately.