whip
Whip is high performance web application server based on httpbeast a nest for redix tree based routing with some extra opmtizations.
Summary
| Latest Version | Unknown |
|---|---|
| License | MIT |
| CI Status | Failing |
| Downloads | 0 |
| Last Indexed | 2026-07-21 05:23 |
Tags
Installation
nimble install whip
choosenim install whip
git clone https://github.com/mattaylor/whip
OS Compatibility
| Platform | Linux | macOS | Windows | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | NetBSD | Android | iOS | WASM | Embedded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| whip | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/mattaylor/whip |
|---|---|
| Homepage | https://github.com/mattaylor/whip |
| Registry Source | nimble_official |
README
WHIP
WHIP is a high performance web application server based on the excellent https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast and routing provided by https://github.com/kedean/nest with some additonal optimizations.
WHIP is still in development and is not recomended for production use. Much is still missing or untested but for basic api use cases however, the performance numbers look pretty good so far (see below).
Its Simple
import ../whip, sugar, json
let w = initWhip()
w.onGet "/json/{name}", (w:Wreq) => w.send(%*{ "name": w.path("name")})
w.onGet "/text/{name}", (w:Wreq) => w.send("hello " & w.path("name"))
w.start()
Its Fast.
As fast as Httpbeast for simple routes and upto 3x faster than Jester for complex routing.
Compared to Go, it is a little quicker than Gin-gonic but slower than fastrouter.
Very unscientific benchmarks...
| Framework | Lang | /text/{name} |
/json/{name} |
/text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whip | Nim | 66.2k (0.15) | 56.4k (0.17) | 70.0k (0.14) |
| HttpBeast | Nim | N/A | N/A | 68.2k (0.14) |
| Jester | Nim | 16.2k (0.59) | 15.6k (0.63) | 56.7k (0.17) |
| Mofuw | Nim | 8.71k (1.14) | 8.13k (1.23) | 9.13 (1.23) |
| GinGonic | Go | 58.4k (0.14) | 57.8k (0.15) | 57.5k (0.15) |
| FastRouter | Go | 89.5k (0.09) | N/A | 90.3k (0.09) |
Total Reqs/Sec (Mean latencies in ms) taken from the best of 3 wrk runs using 2 threads and 10 connections for 10 secs
For latest results see [[results.txt]]
To run ..
./bench.sh -c
Its WIP
Coming soon..
- middleware api
- websockets (mqtt)
- swagger docs
- smarter headers
- session storage (redis)
- sql db adapters (postgrest, graphql)
- smart caching
- static html serving
- html templates (jade)
- authentication (oauth, jwt)
- aws lambda interop