Core concepts: Handlers, Conn, and Adapters

The most important concepts when building a trillium application are the Conn type and the Handler trait. Each Conn represents a single http request/response pair, and a Handler is the trait that all applications, middleware, and endpoints implement.

Let's start with an overview of a simple trillium application and then dig into each of those concepts a little more.

fn main() {
    trillium_smol::run(|conn: trillium::Conn| async move {
        conn.ok("hello from trillium!")
    });
}

In this example, trillium_smol::run is the runtime adapter and the closure is a Handler that responds "hello from trillium!" to any web request it receives. This is a fully functional example that you can run with only the following dependencies:

[dependencies]
trillium = "0.2"
trillium-smol = "0.2"

If we cargo run this example, we can then visit http://localhost:8080 in a browser or make a curl request against that url and see "hello from trillium!" as the response body. Note that we won't see any output in the terminal because trillium is silent by default.