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

Spindle is a multicore-by-design, eio-native web framework for modern OCaml.Its central idea is to provide an expressive, type-driven API and derive the rest: codecs, request validation, OpenAPI spec and frontend schemas (Zod and Melange). This keeps contracts in sync between server and client without maintaining separate definitions.The framework includes an RFC-strict HTTP server, composable dependencies, WebSockets, SSE and high-level primitives for building MCP servers. It also provides production-ready essentials like distributed tracing, OT-compatible metrics, logging and other features you would expect. Speed was never the goal but the benchmarks show it running x2 faster than NestJS and x5 faster than FastAPI on a single core.Give it a try.Documentation: https://hyphatech.github.io/spindle/

27 points by zaiev - 6 comments

6 Comments

sroerick [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very cool! Congrats. Looking forward to trying
andsoitis [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Cool to see some Lisp in this OCaml project:

Add to your bin/dune:

    (executable
      (name main)
      (libraries spindle eio_main)
      (preprocess (pps ppx_wiretype)))**
mpalmer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
These are S-expressions, not Lisp. It's part of dune, which is the build system for ~40% of OPAM packages.
andsoitis [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Dune is an unholy combination of bash and Lisp, according to its author - https://adam-mcdaniel.github.io/dune-website/
mpalmer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
andsoitis [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I stand corrected.