snx

snx is an experimental batteries-included web framework for Rust.

design goals

snx is designed to fill the gap of non-async batteries-included web frameworks in the Rust ecosystem.

high level features

non-async

snx does not use async Rust at all and achieves asynchronous execution using threading. snx not using async has numerious benefits like: not being locked into an async runtime's ecosystem such as tokio, not requiring an async runtime at all and not having to manage the added complexity of async as a whole allowing you to focus on your application and domain logic rather than fighting over lifetimes.

this does come with a couple of trade-offs, namely ... TBA

flexible routing

snx provides a fast, ergonomic and macro-free routing system based on matchit that supports dynamic route segments, wildcards, prefixes and middleware.

Router::builder()
    .prefix("/users", |router| {
        router
            .post("/", store_user)
            .get("/", list_users)
            .get("/{id}", get_user)
            .put("/{id}", update_user)
            .delete("/{id}", delete_user)
    })
    .build()
    .unwrap()

non-features

HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and TLS/SSL

snx is designed to sit behind a reverse proxy and thus only supports HTTP/1.1 without TLS/SSL. configure a reverse proxy (e.g. nginx or Caddy) for HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and TLS/SSL.