Overview
Webroute is a suite of independent tools for building server-side apps and APIs, based on the WinterCG Minimum Common Web API.
Instead of a monolithic framework, Webroute provides a handful of independent packages. Boundaries between routing, middleware, validation, routing and client are clearly defined and separate. This means you're not tied down by framework or runtime.
Philosophy
When building new web tools, the following principles are followed.
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Web Standard | Use web standard interfaces over bespoke abstractions |
| Immutable | Avoiding mutating data, or if you must, doing so explicitly |
| Pure | Preferring basic input/output functions over side-effectful ones |
| Atomic | Standalone functionality is better than requiring complex integration or orchestration |
| Declarative | When useful, prefer declarative over imperative approaches, enabling introspection |
| No magic | No monkey-patching, wrapped Request/Response objects |
| Composable | Prefer composition over orchestration so pipelines are traceable and reasonable |