Altair

The batteries-included web framework for Crystal.

Fast. • Elegant. • Productive.

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Altair is a modern, batteries-included web framework for Crystal, inspired by the philosophy of Ruby on Rails.

Its goal is to provide an exceptional developer experience while taking advantage of Crystal's native performance, low memory usage, and single-binary deployment.

Status: 🚧 Early development (pre-alpha)

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Philosophy

Altair is built around a few simple principles:

• Convention over Configuration
• Developer Happiness
• Batteries Included
• Performance by Default
• Readable and Maintainable Code

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Features (Planned)

• 🚀 High-performance HTTP server
• 🛣️ Expressive routing
• 🧩 MVC architecture
• ⚙️ Middleware pipeline
• 🎨 Template rendering
• 📦 CLI generators
• 🗄️ Database migrations
• 🔒 Authentication
• 📬 Background jobs
• ⚡ Asset management
• 🧪 Testing utilities

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Installation

Installation instructions will be available with the first public release.

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Documentation

Documentation is currently under development.

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Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening an issue or pull request.

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License

Altair is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.