# spiderweb

As a professional web developer focusing on arcane uses of Django for arcane purposes, it occurred to me a little while ago that I didn't actually know how a web framework _worked_. So I built one. `spiderweb` is a small web framework, just big enough to hold a spider. Getting started is easy: ```shell poetry add spiderweb-framework ``` Create a new file and drop this in it: ```python from spiderweb import SpiderwebRouter from spiderweb.response import HttpResponse app = SpiderwebRouter() @app.route("/") def index(request): return HttpResponse("HELLO, WORLD!") if __name__ == "__main__": app.start() ``` My goal with this framework was to do three things: 1. Learn a lot 2. Create an unholy blend of Django and Flask 3. Not look at any existing code. Go off of vibes alone and try to solve all the problems I could think of in my own way And, honestly, I think I got there. Here's a non-exhaustive list of things this can do: * Function-based views * Optional Flask-style URL routing * Optional Django-style URL routing * URLs with variables in them a lá Django * Gunicorn support * Full middleware implementation * Limit routes by HTTP verbs * Custom error routes * Built-in dev server * HTML templates with Jinja2 * Static files support * Cookies (reading and setting) * Optional append_slash (with automatic redirects!) * ~~CSRF middleware implementation~~ (it's there, but it's crappy and unsafe. I'm working on it.) * Optional POST data validation middleware with Pydantic * Database support (using Peewee, but the end user can use whatever they want as long as there's a Peewee driver for it) * Session middleware The TODO list: * Tests (important) * Fix CSRF middleware Once tests are in and proven to work, then I'll release as version 1.0. More documentation to follow! If you're reading this on GitHub, this repository is a public mirror of https://git.joekaufeld.com/jkaufeld/spiderweb.