Glimr ✨

A batteries-included web framework for Gleam that brings functional programming elegance and developer productivity to web development.

Website: glimr.build

If you’d like to stay updated on Glimr’s development, Follow @migueljarias on X (that’s me) for updates.

About Glimr

Note: This repository contains the core code of the Glimr framework. If you want to build an application using Glimr, visit the main Glimr repository.

Features

• Type Safe Routing - Pattern matching routes with compile-time type safety
• Loom Template Engine - Blade-inspired templates with components, slots, and conditionals
• Middleware System - Composable middleware at route and group levels
• Middleware Groups - Pre-configured middleware stacks for different route types (Web, API, Custom)
• Form Validation - Elegant form validation layer to easily validate requests
• Automatic Migrations - Schema-based migration generation with snapshot diffing
• SQL Queries - Write raw SQL files with full editor LSP support, compiled to typed Gleam functions
• Connection Pooling - Efficient database connection management for PostgreSQL and SQLite
• Transaction Support - Atomic operations with automatic retry on deadlock
• Caching - Unified caching API with file, SQLite, and PostgreSQL backends
• Sessions - Server-side sessions with flash messages, backed by PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, file, or cookie drivers
• Console Commands - CLI task runner with database access support and argument parsing

Installation

Add Glimr to your Gleam project:

gleam add glimr

Getting Started

For a complete application structure with controllers, middleware, database support, etc. check out the main Glimr repository.

Learn More

• Glimr Repository - Main Glimr repository
• Gleam Documentation - Learn Gleam
• Wisp Documentation - Web server library

Built With

Glimr is built on top of these excellent Gleam packages:

• wisp - The web framework that powers Glimr’s HTTP handling
• gleam_http - HTTP types and utilities
• gleam_json - JSON encoding and decoding
• gleam_stdlib - Gleam’s standard library
• gleam_time - Work with time in Gleam!
• simplifile - Simple file operations for Gleam
• dot_env - Load environment variables from .env

Special thanks to the Gleam community for building such an awesome ecosystem!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

The Glimr framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Credits

Glimr is inspired by Laravel and other modern web frameworks, adapted for Gleam’s functional programming paradigm.