Basolato Framework

An asynchronous full-stack web framework for Nim, based on asynchttpserver.

⚠️ This project is under heavy development. It's not yet production-ready. ⚠️

Table of Contents

• Basolato Framework
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    • Set up your environment
    • Dependencies
    • Installation
    • Creating projects
  • Documentation
  • Benchmark
  • Roadmap
  • Development
    • Generate TOC of documents

Introduction

Basolato extends asynchttpserver, an implements a high performance asynchronous HTTP server in Nim std library, while also adding features for full-stack development. It was also heavily inspired by other frameworks:

Set up your environment

In order to start using Basolato, you'll first need a working Nim installation. You can find installation instructions for Nim here. Once installed, make sure Nimble, Nim's package manager, is already in your PATH. If not, add .nimble/bin in your favorite shell.

export PATH=$PATH:~/.nimble/bin

Dependencies

The framework depends on several libraries (installed automatically by Nimble):

• nim-templates, a simple string templating library.
• allographer, a library for building queries.
• flatdb, a small Flatfile database, used for sessions.
• bcrypt, used for hashing passwords.
• nimAES, for AES support.
• faker, for generating fake data.

The following libraries can be used for making views:

• Karax, for single-page applications.
• react.nim, React.js bindings.
• react-16.nim, React 16.x bindings with an example app (WIP).

Installation

You can install Basolato easily using Nimble:

nimble install https://github.com/itsumura-h/nim-basolato

After installing Basolato, you should have access to the ducere command on your shell.

Creating projects

Using ducere you can easily create a template project structure to start development right away. Ducere will generate a folder automatically using your project name.

cd /your/project/dir
ducere new {project_name}

The overall file structure is as follows:

├── .gitignore
├── app
│   ├── controllers
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   └── welcome_controller.nim
│   ├── domain
│   │   ├── di_container.nim
│   │   ├── models
│   │   │   ├── README.md
│   │   │   └── value_objects.nim
│   │   ├── query_services
│   │   │   ├── README.md
│   │   │   ├── query_service_interface.nim
│   │   │   └── rdb_query_service.nim
│   │   └── usecases
│   │       └── README.md
│   └── middlewares
│       ├── README.md
│       ├── auth_middleware.nim
│       └── custom_headers_middleware.nim
├── config.nims
├── main.nim
├── migrations
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── migrate.nim
│   └── migration0001sample.nim
├── public
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── basolato.svg
│   ├── css
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   └── js
├── resources
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── layouts
│   │   ├── application_view.nim
│   │   └── head_view.nim
│   └── pages
│       └── welcome_view.nim
├── session.db
├── {project_name}.nimble
└── tests
    └── test_sample.nim

With your project ready, you can start serving requests using ducere:

ducere serve # includes hot reloading

Or by compiling through Nim:

nim c -r main

Documentation

• ducere CLI tool
• Routing
• Controller
• Request
• Middleware
• Headers
• Migration
• View
• Error
• Validation
• Security (CsrfToken, Cookie, Session, Auth)
• Password
• Helper
• Logging

Benchmark

• https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks
• https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&shareid=d57ac3fe-2855-40ec-ac7a-424d34ce7a92&hw=ph&test=json&a=2

Roadmap

Development

Generate TOC of documents

Run.

nimble setupTool # Build docker image
nimble toc # Generate TOC