Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5

Category: web-framework

Tags: ocaml, web-framework, type-safe, eio, http

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Spindle is a full-featured web framework for OCaml 5 built on Eio, offering RFC-strict HTTP/1.1 and WebSocket engines, type-safe JSON derivation, OpenAPI docs, and built-in support for databases, sessions, and observability. Its integration of typed end-to-end schemas with generated frontend clients and interactive docs makes it a comprehensive option for OCaml web development.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/hyphatech/spindle · OCaml · MIT · 13 stars

View on Hacker News