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Ask HN: Current state of statically typed web framework

7 pointsraphaelj8 comments

Hi,

I'd like to know if any of you had a good experience with a statically typed web framework.

I'm currently starting a new project, and I haven't been able to find a statically web framework that match my need.

I've been using Flask with Python for several years, and dynamic typing shows its limit when your project reaches a significant size, as you basically need a 100% code coverage to avoid any runtime error that could have been detected at compile time in another language.

I used Yesod (Haskell) and Play (Scala) too. While I enjoy the type safety, I find them quite bloated compared to Flask.

I saw some new frameworks coming from the Rust and TypeScript community, but I'd like to know any feedback from people that actually used them.

FWIW, I've found the Go standard library `net/http` to be reasonably productive. It's pretty well-designed and intuitive for me, but YMMV. I've observed that ramping up in it from a Python/flask background is relatively painless.

If you're willing to dive into the Go landscape, there are a few quality web frameworks available, ranging from the small highly-performant https://github.com/buaazp/fasthttprouter, to the more opinionated and feature-creepy https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo. I'd skim the selection, see what trade-offs they make, and pick the one that suits you best.

ASP.net core is pretty well documented, has a nice CLI, the tooling is fantastic and the community is growing.

At the end you just have a single executable that you can deploy on a server. NancyFx is nice too.

I've recently came across oatpp c++ web framework https://oatpp.io/. It has nice code-gen features for endpoint parameters mapping, and http client. As well as swagger-ui integration. Tried to play with example projects looks nifty.

If you haven't already it may be worth checking out Rocket [0]. From the guide:

"... you can think of Rocket as being a more flexible, friendly medley of Rails, Flask, Bottle, and Yesod."

[0] https://rocket.rs/

Yesod[1] is pretty cool.

[1] https://www.yesodweb.com/

Http4s is pretty nice, less magic then play

You can go to /r/rust and search/question for answers

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