kedean / nest

RESTful routing with Nim

Nest

RESTful routing with Nim!

Intro

Nest is a high performance URL mapper/router built in Nim.

At the moment, Nest needs a work and is not ready for production. Feedback is appreciated moving forward!

Nest is not a web application framework, only a router. Everything besides routing must be implemented by some other code.

Usage

See examples/ for example usage. Note that using this against Nim's built in asynchttpserver is not required, and it is just used for the examples.

Compilation

To run the example code, use the following invocation:

nim c -r examples/basic.nim

Threads are not required for nest to run, but the examples use threads (in nim.cfg) to prove that they can be used.

Features

• Map against any HTTP method and path
• Server-agnostic
• URL parameter capture
• Query string parameter capture
• Plays nice with various logging systems
• Does not impose restrictions on your handler methods
• Fully unit tested

Future Features

• Benchmarking
• Adding consumes/produces constraints
• Removing dependency on HTTP, allow routing on other transport protocols
• Guarantee thread safety