Athena is an ecosystem of reusable, independent Crystal components.
The project provides a collection of shards that can be used independently or combined to build structured web applications.
The ecosystem includes a web framework assembled from Athena components, with an emphasis on flexibility, extensibility, and SOLID software design principles. It makes extensive use of Crystal annotations and provides facilities for routing, dependency injection, event dispatching, validation, serialization, and other common application requirements.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides an ecosystem of reusable and independent Crystal components.
- Build structured web applications with the Athena Framework.
- Follows SOLID principles to encourage good software design.
- Offers a flexible architecture designed to avoid fighting against the framework.
- Uses Crystal annotations for extension and customisation.
- Includes robust routing and HTTP handling functionality.
- Provides a dependency injection service container.
- Offers event dispatching based on the Mediator and Observer patterns.
- Includes object and value validation functionality.
- Provides flexible object serialisation and deserialisation.
- Includes built-in testing utilities.
Website: github.com/athena-framework/athena
Support:
Developer: George Dietrich
License: MIT License
Athena is written in Crystal. Learn Crystal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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