Valum web micro-framework

Valum is a web micro-framework entirely written in the Vala programming language.

using Valum;
using VSGI.HTTP;

var app = new Router ();

app.get ("", (req, res) => {
    res.body.write_all ("Hello world!".data, null);
});

new Server ("org.valum.example.App", app.handle).run ();

Installation

The installation process is fully documented in the user documentation.

Features

• asynchronous processing based on RAII and automated reference counting that just doesn't get in your way
• powerful routing mechanism with scope, typed parameters and low-level utilities to write expressive web services
• deploy anywhere with libsoup-2.4 built-in HTTP server, CGI, FastCGI or SCGI
• extensive documentation available at valum-framework.readthedocs.org

Contributing

Valum is built by the community under the LGPL license, so anyone can use or contribute to the framework.

1. fork repository
2. pick one task from TODO.md or GitHub issues
3. let us know what you will do (or attempt!)
4. code
5. make a pull request of your amazing changes
6. let everyone enjoy :)

We use semantic versionning, so make sure that your changes

• does not alter api in bugfix release
• does not break api in minor release
• breaks api in major (we like it that way!)

Discussions and help

You can get help with Valum from different sources:

• mailing list: vala-list.
• IRC channel: #vala at irc.gimp.net
• Google+ page for Vala
• issues on GitHub with the question label