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319 points levkk | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hi everyone,

I've been "funemployed" for a few months and with all that free time and idle hands I wrote a full web framework (think Rails, not Flask) for Rust.

It's boring old MVC, has its own ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, migrations and more. If you're keen but don't feel like rewriting your app in a different language, Rwf has a WSGI server to run Django (or Flask) inside Rust [1], letting you migrate to Rust at your own pace without disrupting your website.

I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language. Now it has yet another framework for y'all to play with.

Cheers!

[1] https://levkk.github.io/rwf/migrating-from-python/

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the__alchemist ◴[22 Oct 24 15:08 UTC] No.41915053[source]▶
Love it; this is a big gap in Rust's ecosystem IMO.
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culi ◴[22 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41915226[source]▶
Is it? Asking as someone not very tuned into the ecosystem. Based on TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks[0] and AreWeWebYet's resounding "yes!" for years now[1] I always got the impression that there were quite a few options available.

Rocket, Actix, Axum, Salvo, etc just to name a few. Each with different focuses (e.g. performance vs "batteries-included-ness")

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=composite...

[1] https://www.arewewebyet.org/

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the__alchemist ◴[22 Oct 24 15:31 UTC] No.41915283[source]▶
Great question!

The frameworks you listed are not a direct comparison to this lib, nor Rails, nor Django. They are Flask analogs. They are ideal for microservices, but are not a substitute for a batteries-included framework of the sort used in websites.

I love rust, but don't use it for web backends because there is nothing on Django's level.

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1. stackskipton ◴[22 Oct 24 15:41 UTC] No.41915421[source]▶
How many people are greenfield new Django style projects? I know Static Server-Side Rendering is becoming new hotness but I still thought pure Server-Side Rendering is frowned upon.

Most of SSR I see is still SPA + Rest API/GraphQL backend with some scraper generating all the HTML.

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2. the__alchemist ◴[22 Oct 24 15:44 UTC] No.41915464[source]▶
This is orthogonal; You don't use auth, email, automatic admin, migrations etc from a SPA; those are backend jobs.