# Kemal [](https://travis-ci.org/sdogruyol/kemal)

Lightning Fast, Super Simple web framework for Crystal. Inspired by Sinatra

Kemal is under heavy development and currently supports Crystal 0.9.0.

Super Simple <3

require "kemal"

get "/" do
  "Hello World!"
end

Build and run!

crystal run src/kemal_sample.cr

Go to http://localhost:3000

Check [documentation]https://github.com/sdogruyol/kemal/tree/master/docs) or samples for more.

Super Fast <3

Numbers speak louder than words.

Framework	Request Per Second	Avg. Response Time
Kemal (Production)	64986	170μs
Sinatra (Thin)	2274	43.82ms

These results were achieved with wrk on a Macbook Pro Late 2013. (2Ghz i7 8GB Ram OS X Yosemite)

Features

• Support all REST verbs
• Websocket support
• Request/Response context, easy parameter handling
• Middlewares
• Built-in JSON support
• Built-in static file serving
• Built-in view templating via ecr

Documentation

You can read the documentation under docs folder.

Thanks

Thanks to Manas for their awesome work on Frank.