Prudence
An opinionated lightweight web framework built for scale
Prudence
An opinionated lightweight web framework built for scale, featuring integrated RESTful server-side and client-side caching. Suitable for frontend user interfaces, backend APIs, and full-stack combos.
Write your code in Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or a combination of programming languages. Choose the best programming language per need. Balance performance and productivity. JavaScript/TypeScript are especially useful for bootstrapping your application.
Prudence is distributed as a Go library, as well as a single, compact, customizable executable file with no external dependencies.
And it’s fun! Through rigorous benchmarks conducted in our good-times laboratory we found Prudence to be a zillion times more fun than competing products from leading brand names.
Highlights
- Structure your code as a routable hierarchy of apps, resources, facets, and representations.
- Rich support for HTTP content negotiation according to format, language, and compression algorithms.
- Use JavaScript Templates (JST) to generate HTML and other textual formats by combining design with short code scriptlets. And there’s sugar.
- Maximize efficiency via a triple-phase representation process allowing for composable, fine-grained, associative control over server-side and client-side caching. Killer feature!
- Pluggable server-side cache backends, such as the included Kubernetes-aware distributed memory cache. Or choose backends for Memcached, Redis, etc. Or create a tiered cache combining several backends.
- Schedule jobs using a crontab-like pattern.
- Extensible via the xprudence tool, which allows you to create custom builds of Prudence bundled with the plugins and APIs you need. Even when extended in this way Prudence still remains a single, compact executable file.