Iron is a high level web framework built in and for Rust, built on hyper.
Iron is designed to take advantage of Rust’s greatest features – its excellent type system and its principled approach to ownership in both single threaded and multi threaded contexts.
Iron is highly concurrent and can scale horizontally on more machines behind a load balancer or by running more threads on a more powerful machine. Iron avoids the bottlenecks encountered in highly concurrent code by avoiding shared writes and locking in the core framework.
Iron is meant to be as extensible and pluggable as possible; Iron’s core is concentrated and avoids unnecessary features by leaving them to middleware, plugins, and modifiers.
Middleware, Plugins, and Modifiers are the main ways to extend Iron with new functionality. Most extensions that would be provided by middleware in other web frameworks are instead addressed by the much simpler Modifier and Plugin systems.
Modifiers allow external code to manipulate Requests and Response in an ergonomic fashion, allowing third-party extensions to get the same treatment as modifiers defined in Iron itself. Plugins allow for lazily-evaluated, automatically cached extensions to Re
Website: github.com/iron/iron
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Developer: Iron Core Team
License: MIT License
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