intercity

A web framework for people wanting to build microservices good and build other stuff good too.

Intercity is a reasonable web framework. Others are faster, but this is might be more economical. Intercity provides a comfortable ride with low cognitive cost.

Async code is difficult. And largely unnecessary. The C10k problem isn't a problem in today's world. We have cloud servers these days. It's okay to scale out horizontally when needed. We're not stuck to a single box.

When you're coding with intercity, you can do what you want. Each request is served by its own thread. if you want to connect to a database, then connect to a database. If you want to write to a file, then write to a file.

Status

Just an idea. Nothing works.

Idea

Create an opinonated stack that uses synchronous (blocking) I/O. There are very few frameworks that have avoided async. Perhaps only rouille.

My problem with rouille is that it makes you do too much thinking. I don't want to decide on a templating language every time.

Stack

• http: tiny-http, rustls
• routing: intercity
• everything in the middle: intercity
• model: diesel
• views: minijinja, HTMX

Why "intercity"?

It's a refererce to cheap, high-quality train services in Europe, combined with the Ruby on Rails and Express web framework names.