https://github.com/meh/cauldron

I wonder what kind of Elixir is boiling in there.
https://github.com/meh/cauldron

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I wonder what kind of Elixir is boiling in there.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/meh/cauldron
• Owner: meh
• Created: 2013-05-30T20:27:18.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-05-13T15:43:50.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T06:49:11.542Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Elixir
• Size: 308 KB
• Stars: 74
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Cauldron - an HTTP/SPDY server as a library

===========================================

Cauldron is a web server implemented as a library, it's easy to embed into

other applications and fairly easy to implement DSLs on it, an example

of a DSL using cauldron is [urna](https://github.com/meh/urna).

Examples

--------

```elixir

defmodule Foo do

  use Cauldron

  # respond to a GET / request with "Hello, World!"

  def handle("GET", %URI{path: "/"}, req) do

    req |> Request.reply(200, "Hello, World!")

  end

end

# open the cauldron on port 8080

Cauldron.start Foo, port: 8080

```

Why?

----

Because I don't like how cowboy handles things and there are no other pure

Elixir webservers around that I know of.

Speed

-----

Right now cauldron is faster than node.js and slower than cowboy, there' still

space for speed improvements but it's not a high priority right now.

The slowness comes from protocol dispatching in Elixir, protocol consolidation

will fix that.

Also we don't use an hand-crafted decoder like cowboy does but use

`:erlang.decode_packet`.