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Safsaf is a Guile web framework, written using Claude Code running
Claude Opus 4.6, based off of the Guix Data Service, Nar Herder and
Guix Build Coordinator codebases.
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# Safsaf
<p align="center">
<img src="doc/logo.svg" alt="Safsaf" width="150">
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A web framework for [GNU Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/),
using [Guile Fibers](https://codeberg.org/guile/fibers) and the [Guile
Knots](https://cbaines.codeberg.page/guile-knots/) web server.
Developed based off of the Guix Data Service and Nar Herder codebases,
written using Claude Code running Claude Opus 4.6.
## Quick Example
```scheme
(use-modules (safsaf)
(safsaf router)
(safsaf response-helpers))
(define routes
(list
(route 'GET '() (lambda (request body-port)
(text-response "Hello, world!")))
(route '* '* (lambda (request body-port)
(not-found-response)))))
(run-safsaf routes #:port 8080)
```
## Design
Safsaf aims for functional over imperitive configuration and to be
minimal but very extensible.
Suspendable ports in Guile plus Guile Fibers is used both for Safsaf
internals, but should also be used for user applications where
possible and suitable.
## Features
- **Request router** with parameterised segments, wildcards, nested
groups, and reverse routing (`path-for`)
- **Handler wrappers** (middleware) applied per-route or per-group via
`wrap-routes`
- **Included handler wrappers**: logging, CORS, CSRF protection,
sessions (signed cookies), security headers, trailing-slash
normalization, exception handling
- **Request helpers**: form body parsing, multipart parsing, query
strings, cookies
- **Response helpers**: HTML/SXML, JSON, redirects, plain text, static
files with `Last-Modified` / `Cache-Control`
- **Parameter parsing**: declarative param specs with built-in
processors, CSRF integration, and error inspection
### Wishlist
- Internationalization support
- Server sent events (SSE) support
- WebSockets support
## Other Guile web frameworks
- **GNU Artanis** https://artanis.dev/
- **schingle** https://github.com/petelliott/schingle
## Dependencies
- GNU Guile 3.0+
- [Guile Knots](https://forge.cbaines.net/cbaines/guile-knots) (web server, resource pools)
- Guile Webutils (multipart, cookies, sessions)
- [Guile JSON](https://github.com/aconchillo/guile-json) 4.x
- [Guile Lib](https://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/) (htmlprag, logging)
A Guix development environment is provided via `guix-dev.scm` and
`.envrc` (direnv).
## License
LGPL-3.0-or-later