AlpDmr / horse

Fast, opinionated, minimalist web framework for Delphi

Horse is an Express inspired web framework for Delphi.
Designed to ease things up for fast development in a minimalist way and with high performance.

⚙️ Installation

Installation is done using the boss install command:

boss install horse

• (Optional) Install wizard

⚡️ Quickstart Delphi

uses Horse;

begin
  THorse.Get('/ping',
    procedure(Req: THorseRequest; Res: THorseResponse; Next: TProc)
    begin
      Res.Send('pong');
    end);

  THorse.Listen(9000);
end.

⚡️ Quickstart Lazarus

{$MODE DELPHI}{$H+}

uses Horse;

procedure GetPing(Req: THorseRequest; Res: THorseResponse; Next: TNextProc);
begin
  Res.Send('Pong');
end;

begin
  THorse.Get('/ping', GetPing);
  THorse.Listen(9000);
end. 

🧬 Official Middlewares

For a more maintainable middleware ecosystem, we've put official middlewares into separate repositories:

Middleware	Delphi	Lazarus
horse/json	✔️	✔️
horse/basic-auth	✔️	✔️
horse/cors	✔️	✔️
horse/stream	✔️	✔️
horse/jwt	✔️	❌
horse/exception	✔️	✔️
horse/logger	✔️	✔️
horse/compression	✔️	✔️

🌱 Third Party Middlewares

This is a list of middlewares that are created by the Horse community, please create a PR if you want to see yours!

Middleware	Delphi	Lazarus
bittencourtthulio/etag	✔️	✔️
bittencourtthulio/paginate	✔️	✔️
bittencourtthulio/cachecontrol	✔️	❌
gabrielbaltazar/gbswagger	✔️	❌
willhubner/socketIO	✔️	❌
dliocode/ratelimit	✔️	❌
dliocode/slowdown	✔️	❌
giorgiobazzo/upload	✔️	❌
dliocode/query	✔️	❌
CarlosHe/healthcheck	✔️	❌
CarlosHe/staticfiles	✔️	❌
CachopaWeb/horse-server-static	✔️	❌
arvanus/horse-exception-logger	✔️	✔️
claudneysessa/Horse-CSResponsePagination	✔️	❌
claudneysessa/Horse-XSuperObjects	✔️	❌

Delphi Versions

Horse works with Delphi 11 Alexandria, Delphi 10.4 Sydney, Delphi 10.3 Rio, Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, Delphi 10.1 Berlin, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi XE8 and Delphi XE7.

⚠️ License

Horse is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License.

📐 Tests