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nickel – simple and lightweight foundation for web applications

nickel.rs is a simple and lightweight foundation for web applications written in Rust.

Its API is inspired by the popular express framework for JavaScript.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Flexible routing – routes can be as simple as /foo, use parameters, wildcards or even double wildcards.
  • Middleware – are the extensibility points of nickel. Batteries included! A bunch of existing Middleware comes right with nickel.
  • JSON handling – makes it easy to map JSON data right onto your struct.
  • Custom error handler – by default nickel catches all errors with its default ErrorHandler and tries to take reasonable actions. In cases where one wants to provide an own ErrorHandler (e.g. for custom 404 pages), it’s trivial to write one.
  • Easy templating – supports defining templates with mustache.rs. All you need is to create the template.

Website: nickel-org.github.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Christoph Burgdorf
License: MIT License

nickel is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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