List of Middlewares and Plugins

[phlmn]

We should compile a list containing all middlewares and plugins we can find. It should be categorized and include links to the corresponding documentations and repositories.

Edit: We could use the GitHub API to check which version they support and if they are being updated.

This issue is used to collect them.

Official

Middlewares

• mount
• persistent
• router
• urlencoded
• logger
• iron-sessionstorage
• staticfile

Plugins

• params
• body-parser

Community

Middlewares

• iron-csrf
• rust-secure-session
• handlebars-iron
• iron-json-response
• iron_middlefiddle
• corsware
• iron-hmac
• iron-cors
• iron-error-router
• oven

Plugins

Other

• maud
• multipart
• askama

Projects that use Iron

• rustless
• mdbook
• aurelius
• simple-http-server
• gauc

[sunng87]

I maintained two middlewares:

• handlebars: https://github.com/sunng87/handlebars-iron
• json response: https://github.com/sunng87/iron-json-response

You may check dependent crates of iron on crates.io to find more useful community crates.

[elliotekj]

I made the iron_middlefiddle middleware: https://github.com/elliotekj/iron-middlefiddle

[zgtm]

I browsed a bit through the first three pages of the dependent crates of iron and found the following crates (sorted by # of downloads):

• multipart https://crates.io/crates/multipart
• iron-hmac https://crates.io/crates/iron-hmac

Page 2

• handlebars-iron https://crates.io/crates/handlebars-iron (template engine)
• maud https://crates.io/crates/maud (templates)
• askama https://crates.io/crates/askama (templates)
• iron-cors https://crates.io/crates/iron-cors (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)

Page 3

• metrics https://crates.io/crates/metrics
• gauc https://crates.io/crates/gauc
• iron-csrf https://crates.io/crates/iron-csrf
• iron-error-router https://crates.io/crates/iron-error-router

other older crates:

• oven https://crates.io/crates/oven (cookies)
• rustless https://crates.io/crates/rustless (api-framework)

Tools that use iron but are not middleware:

• mdbook https://crates.io/crates/mdbook (only uses iron as local preview server)
• aurelius https://crates.io/crates/aurelius (server to render markdown)
• simple-http-server https://crates.io/crates/simple-http-server

[atorstling]

I made corsware, a CORS middleware https://github.com/atorstling/corsware

[phlmn]

@zgtm I added your findings to the list and created a new topic 'Projects that use Iron". The new topic probably should have it's own issue but it's easier like this for now.

I hope I did get everything. Metrics doesn't seem to use iron anymore.