Marten is a Crystal web framework that makes building web applications easy, productive, and fun.
It provides a consistent and extensible set of tools that developers can leverage to build web applications without reinventing the wheel.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Simple – syntax is inherited from the slickness and simplicity of the Crystal programming language. On top of that, the framework tries to be KISS and DRY compliant as much as possible to reduce time-to-market.
- Fast – build full-featured web applications by leveraging the bare metal performances of the Crystal programming language. It also tries to optimize for decent compile times.
- Adheres to the “batteries included” philosophy. Out of the box, it provides the tools and features that are commonly required by web applications: ORM, migrations, translations, templating engines, sessions, emailing, authentication, etc.
- Extensible – contribute extra functionalities to the framework easily.
- App-oriented – allows separating projects into a set of logical “apps”.
- Security – cross-site request forgeries, clickjacking, or SQL injections are taken care of by the framework to avoid common security issues.
Website: martenframework.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Morgan Aubert
License: MIT License
Marten is written in Crystal. Learn Crystal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Kemal | Very simple web framework |
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| Marten | Enables pragmatic development and rapid prototyping |
| Grip | Microframework for building RESTful web applications |
| Spider-Gazelle | Rails esque web framework |
| Orion | Omni-conventional, declarative framework inspired by ruby-on-rails router |
| Onyx | Powerful general purpose framework with type safety |
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