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BareMetalWeb

From scratch. Zero dependency. Direct to socket.

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A modular monolithic web host built from nothing. No ASP.NET. No middleware pipeline. No dependency injection container. Just a raw HttpListener, manual route dispatch, and server-side rendering driven by metadata.

What's inside

  • Storage engine with WAL-based persistence
  • UI renderer driven by entity metadata — declare your schema, get forms and tables
  • Full auth stack with session management
  • In-memory compilation via Roslyn
  • Server-Sent Events for real-time updates

Why it exists

Most web frameworks exist to make development feel nice. This one exists to make execution honest. Every request hits a single handler. Every response is built from bytes. There is no abstraction between your code and the socket.

The fastest framework is the one that doesn't exist.

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