A fast, minimalist web framework for Delphi and Lazarus, inspired by Express.js.
Horse is an Express-inspired web framework for Delphi and Lazarus. It provides a minimalist and opinionated approach to building web applications, focusing on ease of use, fast development, and high performance. The framework enables developers to quickly create server-side applications with familiar routing and middleware patterns.
Delphi and Lazarus developers building web services, APIs, or server-side applications who want a modern, Express-like framework in the Pascal ecosystem.
Developers choose Horse for its familiar Express.js-like API in a Pascal environment, its extensive middleware ecosystem for extended functionality, and its cross-IDE compatibility that supports both Delphi and Lazarus for broad adoption.
Fast, opinionated, minimalist web framework for Delphi
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Provides a simple and intuitive routing syntax similar to Express.js, as demonstrated in the quickstart examples with THorse.Get and THorse.Listen, lowering the learning curve for developers.
Supports a wide range of official and community-built middlewares for functionality like authentication, logging, and compression, with a detailed table in the README listing over 20 options.
Works with both Delphi and Lazarus, as shown in separate quickstart sections, catering to a broad range of Pascal developers and enabling code reuse across IDEs.
Optimized for speed with a minimalist design, making it suitable for building efficient web services and APIs, as emphasized in the project description for fast development.
Many third-party middlewares, such as horse-cachecontrol and gbswagger, lack Lazarus support (marked with ❌ in the README table), limiting functionality for users of that IDE.
Being specific to Pascal, Horse has a smaller community and fewer resources compared to mainstream web frameworks, which can hinder finding solutions, tutorials, or hiring expertise.
Installation requires using the 'boss install' command, which adds tooling complexity and might be unfamiliar to some Delphi developers accustomed to built-in package managers.