1 unstable release
0.0.1 | Oct 28, 2023 |
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#44 in #faster
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intercity
A web framework for people wanting to build microservices good and build other stuff good too.
Intercity is a reasonable web framework. Others are faster, but this is might be more economical. Intercity provides a comfortable ride with low cognitive cost.
Async code is difficult. And largely unnecessary. The C10k problem isn't a problem in today's world. We have cloud servers these days. It's okay to scale out horizontally when needed. We're not stuck to a single box.
When you're coding with intercity, you can do what you want. Each request is served by its own thread. if you want to connect to a database, then connect to a database. If you want to write to a file, then write to a file.
Status
Just an idea. Nothing works.
Idea
Create an opinonated stack that uses synchronous (blocking) I/O. There are
very few frameworks that have avoided async. Perhaps only rouille
.
My problem with rouille
is that it makes you do too much thinking. I
don't want to decide on a templating language every time.
Stack
- http: tiny-http, rustls
- routing: intercity
- everything in the middle: intercity
- model: diesel
- views: minijinja, HTMX
Why "intercity"?
It's a refererce to cheap, high-quality train services in Europe, combined with the Ruby on Rails and Express web framework names.
Dependencies
~2–9MB
~72K SLoC