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tokamak
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cztomsik / tokamak

tokamak

Web framework for Zig that leverages dependency injection for clean, modular application development.

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What it is

Web framework for Zig that leverages dependency injection for clean, modular application development.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

I love the use of `@hasDecl(root, "mime_types")`. I didn't realize that `@import("root")` was a thing. https://github.com/cztomsik/tokamak/blob/main/src/mime.zig

clebert used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

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What Hacker News says

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cztomsik·Jan 17, 2026Submission

Show HN: Zig parser in ~70 lines of JavaScript

I wanted something lighter than zig autodoc so I've implemented (and golfed a bit) a custom parser using parser combinators in JS. It's not 100% correct and it's also not meant to be, all I care about is if it can parse my own Zig code, not any valid Zig code. There are also some bugs, and I don't intend to support, nor develop this much further, consider it vaporware which you are free to fork and use it for something, or just have some fun reading the code and figuring out how it works (I certainly had a lot of fun implementing it - no LLMs, so it was a nice exercise too). BTW: I know it's probably very inefficient, and I don't care - it goes through 67 files in 0.19s and I don't expect it to be ever a bottleneck for this use-case, so I've spent exactly 0 minutes trying to optimize it.
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cztomsik·Dec 9, 2025
I guess there are different levels of meta-programming. You can go really far in Rust/C++ too but I think Zig is really unique that you can write a function, which takes a type, it does some imperative mumbo-jumbo and spits out another type, doing exactly what you want, without having to think about restrictions, trait bounds, or whatever. For example, here's comptime dependency-injection container, which notably, can be configured and extended, completely in comptime, and the final glue is something which in theory the compiler could optimize away too (no idea if it does). https://github.com/cztomsik/tokamak/blob/main/src/container.... And regarding what they discuss in article, I did something similar for N-API, note how much you can do in few hundred lines, and I'd say that you can use it for most of what people do with napi-rs except
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that napi-rs is huge (and also unsafe, because it allows indirect recursion, which allows breaking all the rustc promises) https://github.com/cztomsik/napigen/blob/main/src/napigen.zi...
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