https://github.com/timclicks/intercity

A reasonable web framework. Others are faster, but this is likely to be more economical.
https://github.com/timclicks/intercity

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A reasonable web framework. Others are faster, but this is likely to be more economical.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timclicks/intercity
• Owner: timClicks
• Created: 2023-10-28T08:20:27.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-28T08:25:29.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-19T11:15:15.876Z (7 days ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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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.