# Kemal Documentation This README includes documentation of Kemal, the Crystal Web Framework. ## What is Kemal? Kemal is a micro web framework written in Crystal language. It's strongly inspired from [Sinatra](www.sinatrarb.com). ## What is Crystal? Crystal is a programming language based on *Ruby* syntax. ## Advantages of using Kemal - Easy to learn and start to develop. - Since it's working on LLVM, it's too fast. - Easy deploment to *Heroku*. ## The Name Kemal means *Mature, grown up* in Turkish. ## How to start? - [Getting Started Tutorial](./tutorial.md) - [Using Dynamic Views](./views.md) - [Parsing HTTP requests and Form Data](./http-requests.md) - [Uploading Files](./upload.md) - [Serving Static Files](./statics.md) - [Serving JSON API](./json.md) - [Restful Web Services](./rest.md) - [How to connect to Database](./database.md)