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Pros
Pro Custom error handler
By default nickel catches all errors with its default ErrorHandler and tries to take reasonable actions. In cases where one wants to provide an own ErrorHandler (e.g. for custom 404 pages), it's trivial to write one
Pro Easy Templating
Nickel supports defining templates with mustache.rs. All you need is to create the template
Pro JSON handling
nickel makes it easy to map JSON data right onto your struct
Pro Middleware
Middleware are the extensibility points of nickel. Batteries included! A bunch of existing Middleware comes right with nickel
Pro Flexible routing
Routes can be as simple as /foo, use parameters, wildcards or even double wildcards