cheetah

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cheetah is ~30% faster than hono, which is supposed to be the fastest JavaScript framework, and ~70% faster than oak, the Express.js of Deno.

Benchmark	Time (avg)	min ... max	p75	p99	p995	p999
cheetah	61.02 µs/run	48 µs ... 2.41 ms	53.2 µs	175.6 µs	522.3 µs	1.17 ms
hono	72.26 µs/run	50.1 µs ... 2.36 ms	68.5 µs	216.5 µs	810.6 µs	1.17 ms
itty-router	70.88 µs/run	58.2 µs ... 2.27 ms	64.8 µs	197.7 µs	286.2 µs	1.33 ms
oak	96.5 µs/run	70.1 µs ... 3.67 ms	82.2 µs	521.4 µs	737.7 µs	1.16 ms

Benchmark: basic.ts — Runtime: Deno 1.34.0 (x86_64-pc-windows-msvc) — CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

Sneak Peek

import cheetah from 'https://deno.land/x/cheetah@v0.10.0/mod.ts'
import { serve } from 'https://deno.land/std@0.190.0/http/server.ts'

const app = new cheetah()
  .get('/', () => 'Hello World')

serve(app.fetch)

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Why cheetah?

🪖 secure - cheetah ensures that parsing doesn't cause your app to freeze.
🧙‍♂️ schema validation - out-of-the-box support for schema validation via TypeBox or Zod. Show more!
💎 simple - built-in support for CORS, caching, schema validation, debugging and more! Show more!
🪹 chaining & nesting - cheetah doesn't dictate you how to write your app. Show more!
🪶 light - all core functionality in ~11 KB. Show more!