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 | 47.64 µs/run | 40 µs ... 1.62 ms | 42.9 µs | 144.7 µs | 185.8 µs | 899.3 µs | | hono | 59.38 µs/run | 46.8 µs ... 1.73 ms | 54.6 µs | 128.9 µs | 209.8 µs | 1.31 ms | | itty-router | 59.61 µs/run | 52.3 µs ... 1.85 ms | 56.4 µs | 91.5 µs | 106.3 µs | 1.37 ms | | oak | 79.59 µs/run | 70.6 µs ... 1.09 ms | 74.4 µs | 181.4 µs | 254.4 µs | 850.4 µs |

Benchmark: basic.ts — Runtime: Deno 1.32.5 (x86_64-pc-windows-msvc) — CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

Sneak Peek

Deno

import cheetah from 'https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts'
import { serve } from 'https://deno.land/[email protected]/http/server.ts'

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

serve(app.fetch)

Node.js (Cloudflare Workers)

import cheetah from '@azury/cheetah'

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

export default app

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Why cheetah?

• [x] 🪖 secure - cheetah ensures that parsing doesn't cause your app to freeze.
• [x] 🧙‍♂️ schema validation - out-of-the-box support for schema validation via TypeBox or Zod.
• [x] 💎 simple - built-in support for CORS, caching, schema validation, debugging and more!
• [x] 🪹 chaining & nesting - cheetah doesn't dictate you how to write your app.
• [x] 🪶 light - all core functionality in ~14.5 kB.