Show HN: Rust Web Framework

Nice, congratulations. It must feel so surreal launching this!

One of my biggest learnings from doing a bunch of web MVC through Rails over the years is that the framework should heavily discourage business logic in the model layer.

Some suggestions:

- Don't allow "callbacks" (what AR calls them) ie hooks like afterCreate in the data model. I know you don't have these yet in your ORM, but in case those are on the roadmap, my opinion is that they should not be.

- That only really works though if you not strongly encourage a service aka business logic layer. Most of my Rails app tend to have all of these as command aka service objects using a gem (library/package) like Interactor.*

* It's my view that MVC (and therefore Rails otb) is not ideal by itself to write a production-ready app, because of the missing service layer.

Also, curious why existing ORMs or query builders from the community weren't leveraged?

Disclaimer: I haven't written a line of Rust yet (more curious as the days go by). I'm more curious than ever now, thanks to you!

Interesting. I’ve rolled my own PHP ORM at work (forbidden from using FOSS libraries like Laravel) and found hooks to be extremely useful. Notably, my programming experience started with PHP for Wordpress which used hooks extensively, so maybe I’m biased.

Mine has a table spec that can translate into a SQL definition or spit out a nicely formatted HTML form. There’s a separate controller that handles all DB connections / CRUD operations, with before- and after-hooks that can easily cross reference with other tables and constraints if needed.

It all works pretty nicely, although I would still switch to Laravel in an instant if I could.

Please don't feel obligated to answer if you can't, but why can't you use FOSS libraries like Laravel? Are you not even allowed to use MIT licensed stuff? What industry do you work in?

Small aerospace company. We had a really old school CEO at the time the project was started - didn’t even want us using GitHub since it was on the cloud. Everything runs on an on-premise IBM i Series (AS400 / IBM Mainframe).

I pushed hard and was able to get us to the point where stuff runs in PASE with modern languages (like PHP).

It’s not any specific licensing issue, just organizational distrust of anything that isn’t paid for.