Lustre web framework
Hacker ApprovedRanked 23 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Elm-style web framework for Gleam, liked for its strong constraints, clear HTML templating and fit with Gleam. Caveat: small ecosystem.
Elm-style web framework for Gleam, liked for its strong constraints, clear HTML templating and fit with Gleam. Caveat: small ecosystem.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 85%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Elm-style architecture fits well
“I recently used Gleam + Lustre for a small app that I normally would have built with Elm + PostgREST.”
Comment from 13 Dec 2025 in “I tried Gleam for Advent of Code” “squirrel (sqlx-ish) and lustre (elm-like) being examples of what we could have instead”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM” “It's also why I moved to Gleam and Lustre (elm architecture)”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager” - Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go”
Good web framework for Gleam
“There are some good web frameworks in Gleam like lustre.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain” “I really enjoy working with both Lustre and Gleam.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “ClojureScript Gets Async/Await” “Gleam, lustre, and tauri? Amazing”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps” Strong constraints help AI coding
“the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong, Claude gives me much better results”
Comment from 9 Jun 2026 in “Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps” “the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong”
Comment from 9 Jun 2026 in “Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| Lustre web frameworkThis page | 17 | 3 | 85% | 9 | — | Approved |
What people said
23 of the 25 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“With Lustre and Tauri it can run anywhere.”
“There are reasons to love Gleam and Lustre”
“Probably one could inspiration by https://github.com/lustre-labs/lustre”
“Seems to have a nice mix of maintainers that care about community and design.”
“their data is not stored on any one system (local XFS, Ceph, Lustre), a recipe for disaster”
“seeing how Lustre does HTML templating versus how Phoenix does Heex was my deciding factor”
“you may want to have a look at the Gleam language and the Lustre web framework”
“Gleam, lustre, and tauri? Amazing”
“the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong, Claude gives me much better results”
“the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong”
“like lustre it can be fast, if your workload aligns with it's tradeoffs”
“the metadata store is your weak link”
“I really enjoy working with both Lustre and Gleam.”
“There are some good web frameworks in Gleam like lustre.”
“It's also why I moved to Gleam and Lustre (elm architecture)”
“Gleam + Lustre (which is TEA) is a pretty great fit.”
“Heavily optimised for latency. Gets very expensive if you need more bandwidth, as it is tiered and tied to volume sizes.”
“they are really complex to set up and maybe need fancier networking than ethernet”
“the only one that seemed to actually offer POSIX semantics was LustreFS, which, for related reasons, is also an operability nightmare”
“being able to avoid JS land churn (and nulls) is quite nice”
“the ecosystem is pretty small yet”
“I recently used Gleam + Lustre for a small app that I normally would have built with Elm + PostgREST.”
“squirrel (sqlx-ish) and lustre (elm-like) being examples of what we could have instead”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.