Rust on Bolts

Bolts is a fast, safe web framework for the Rust language inspired loosely by Ruby on Rails.

Bolts is under active development (not ready for use), with the following planned features (subject to change):

• fast, powerful, and safe, with sane defaults for everything
• routing system, including subdomain/domain-based routing, automatic parsing of URL parameters, etc.
• simple MVC based application layout for basic projects
• templating system for server-side-rendered layouts
• well defined environments (i.e. development, test, staging, production)
• pre-configured secure cookies setup
• built-in CSRF protection
• ActiveRecord-esque ORM for SQL-based databases with a migrations system
• ability to deploy entire apps to AWS Lambda + CloudFront
• a CLI allowing for things like bolts s to run local dev server
• integrated command/task system
• some sort of frontend framework written in rust / web assembly so we can say goodbye to JavaScript
• many other things

To start out, the main objectives are:

1. routing system
2. controller scheme
3. templating / views
4. middleware, session management, etc