Glimr ✨

A type-safe web framework for Gleam that brings functional programming elegance and developer productivity to web development.

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About Glimr

Note: This repository contains the core code of the Glimr framework. If you want to build an application using Glimr, visit the main Glimr repository.

Features

• Type Safe Routing - Pattern matching routes with compile-time type safety and automatic 404/405 handling
• View Builder - Fluent API for rendering HTML and Lustre components with layouts
• Template Engine - Simple {{variable}} syntax for dynamic content
• Redirect Builder - Clean redirect API with flash message support
• Middleware System - Composable middleware at route and group levels
• Middleware Groups - Pre-configured middleware stacks for different route types (Web, API, Custom)
• Lustre Integration - Server-side rendering of Lustre components
• Context/Singleton System - Type-safe use of singletons throughout your application
• Form Validation - Built-in validation rules for validating form requests

Installation

Add Glimr to your Gleam project:

gleam add glimr

Getting Started

For a complete application structure with controllers, middleware, and configuration, check out the Glimr starter project.

Learn More

• Framework Repository - Core framework code
• Gleam Documentation - Learn Gleam
• Wisp Documentation - Web server library

Built With

Glimr is built on top of these excellent Gleam libraries:

• Wisp - The web framework that powers Glimr’s HTTP handling
• gleam_http - HTTP types and utilities
• gleam_json - JSON encoding and decoding
• gleam_stdlib - Gleam’s standard library

Special thanks to the Gleam community for building such an awesome ecosystem!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

The Glimr framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Credits

Glimr is inspired by Laravel and other modern web frameworks, adapted for Gleam’s functional programming paradigm.