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

  • Posted 2 days ago by zaiev
  • 27 points
https://github.com/hyphatech/spindle
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/

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