AndyL
Another Sinatra-like server
Ruby has Sinatra for simple web apps. In the Elixir world, there have been a few approaches to emulate Sinatra, using Cowboy, Plug.Router, or custom frameworks.
With Phoenix 1.7 I had a look at Bandit a new web server. With Bandit and Plug it’s easy to build a simple Sinatra-like server. Here’s an example written as an Elixir script:
#!/usr/bin/env elixir
Mix.install([{:bandit, "~> 0.5"}])
defmodule Router do
use Plug.Router
plug :match
plug :dispatch
def run do
Bandit.start_link(plug: Router)
Process.sleep(:infinity)
end
get "/" do
send_resp(conn, 200, "HELLO")
end
match _ do
send_resp(conn, 404, "Not found")
end
end
Router.run()
Has anyone else experimented with Bandit & Plug.Router? What is your experience pro/con?
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mtrudel
(Bandit author here)
@kip is right on the money - Bandit is a an alternative to Cowboy (hence the lousy naming pun). The analog to Sinatra in the Elixir community would be Plug.Router, which is actually a really great little bit of tooling.
Plug.Router is just a Plug, so you can run it on top of any Plug-supporting webserver (Cowboy or Bandit, basically).
I talk about this in the ElixirConf talk where I introduced Bandit:
LostKobrakai
Most often I’d argue what the reason is to not go for phoenix.
It has some useful additions on top of pure plug (e.g. conveniences like :put_secure_browser_headers or simpler CSRF handling) + websockets/channels. If you strip down phoenix it’s hardly less code than a plug based approach:
- bandit.exs (28 loc)
- phoenix.exs (48 loc)
Adding LV in the mix makes it 84 loc, most of the additional lines being the LV itself.
So unless the “single module approach” is really the selling point – like e.g. the mentioned usecase of testservers – I’d always go straight for phoenix, because things are likely to grow to a point where it makes sense. You can still use Plug.Router as your router instead of a phoenix one.
kip
I think of Bandit more as an alternative to Cowboy, not an alternative to Phoenix. Indeed with Phoenix 1.7 you can run Phoenix apps on either Cowboy or Bandit. The rest of it is just the boilerplate to get a plug-based app up and running on the HTTP server of choice.
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derpycoder
It works flawlessly with Phoenix 1.7!!
And it’s a 2 line change!!
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