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488 points levkk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.722s | 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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imiric ◴[22 Oct 24 21:25 UTC] No.41918890[source]▶
After years of working with web frameworks in Python and Java, and then picking up Go along the way, I've come to appreciate Go's approach much more. That is, with a rich and capable standard library, you really don't need traditional frameworks. Need an HTTP server, router, etc.? Use stdlib. Need templates? Use stdlib. Need an ORM? You don't, but you may want to consider a small 3rd party query builder library of your choice. And so on.

This avoids depending on a complex framework that may or may not exist in a few years, improves security by minimizing the amount of 3rd party dependencies, keeps the learning curve low for any new developers joining the project, and is more flexible and easier to maintain. I don't have experience with Rust, and judging by the comments here, web frameworks might still be useful for it. Which is a shame, since the batteries included stdlib approach is far superior IME.

Anyway, I don't want to shoot down your efforts. Congrats on the launch and good luck!

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victorbjorklund ◴[22 Oct 24 22:22 UTC] No.41919336[source]▶
honestly sucks trying to build a large web app with just the go stdlib. The stdlib is amazing but it is not all you need for a good dx experience.
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int_19h ◴[22 Oct 24 22:34 UTC] No.41919406[source]▶
A rich stdlib establishes patterns and provides standard types for other libraries and frameworks, making the whole thing generally more consistent as opposed to something like the Node.js ecosystem, which looks and feels more like a bunch of random parts crudely fitted together through copious use of duck tape and glue.
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1. klabb3 ◴[23 Oct 24 00:50 UTC] No.41920419[source]▶
Concretely, Go has eg context.Context, net.Conn, http.Handler and of course io.Writer/Reader/Closer. All 3p libs will use the standard types. This means you can compose many 3p building blocks together, without any prior knowledge or coordination on their end.

When you have an insufficient stdlib, you often get compatibility issues, where things don’t compose. So you get these kind of pseudo-std mega frameworks like Tokio instead. It was a while ago I was deep in JS but I remember similar things there.