Jester
Jester is a minimalist, high-performance web framework for the Nim programming language. It leverages Nim's native compilation and powerful metaprogramming capabilities to provide a concise, elegant Domain Specific Language (DSL) for defining routes and handling HTTP requests, making it suitable…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Jester was created to provide a high-level, idiomatic, and performant web framework for the nascent Nim ecosystem. Before Jester, Nim developers lacked a cohesive solution for building web applications, often resorting to low-level HTTP modules or manual wrappers, which led to significant boilerplate and hindered rapid development.
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Any platform supported by the Nim compiler, Linux
Related technologies
- Nim programming language
- nimpg (PostgreSQL driver for Nim)
- nimsql (Generic SQL driver for Nim)
- Karax (Nim frontend framework for client-side HTML, sometimes used for server-side rendering)
- orm.nim (Nim ORM)
- Hasty (Nim templating engine)
- jsony (JSON serialization/deserialization)
- Nimble (Nim package manager)
- nimyaml (YAML parser for Nim)