Vaden is a backend web framework for Dart inspired by Spring Boot. Built on Shelf, it provides higher-level abstractions for developing structured web applications and APIs while retaining compatibility with the wider Shelf ecosystem.
The framework uses annotations to define controllers, routes, services, repositories, middleware, guards, configuration and data transfer objects. Its class scanner generates a central application configuration without creating numerous .g.dart files.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Builds on the Shelf web server ecosystem.
- Defines controllers and HTTP routes using annotations.
- Provides constructor-based dependency injection.
- Supports services, repositories, components, configurations and beans.
- Offers middleware and guards for processing and protecting routes.
- Maps path parameters, query parameters and request bodies to controller methods.
- Includes DSON for automatic DTO serialization and deserialization.
- Generates OpenAPI documentation and data schemas.
- Uses a class scanner to reduce code-generation boilerplate.
- Supports synchronous and asynchronous dependency registrations.
Website: github.com/Flutterando/vaden
Support:
Developer: Flutterando community
License: MIT License
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|---|---|
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| Angel3 | Full-stack web framework that is build to streamline development |
| Dart Frog | Fast, minimalistic backend framework |
| Shelf | Web server middleware |
| Jaguar | Full-stack production ready HTTP server framework built to be fast and simple |
| Angular | Fast and productive web framework |
| Alfred | Performant expressjs like web server / rest api framework |
| Vania | Approachable development workflow with integrated tools |
| Vaden | Backend web framework |
| Start | Sinatra inspired web development framework |
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