Curiosity: is that a concern only with routes? Or would you also like to have a explicit control of which middleware you are using too? Because if the latter,

Curiosity: is that a concern only with routes? Or would you also like to have a explicit control of which middleware you are using too? Because if the latter, it feels like a web framework isn't for you. But you should definitely consider Plug (http://github.com/elixir-lang/plug http://github.com/elixir-lang/plug), which has all the pieces and you just need to put them together (a simple router, a bunch of "middleware", etc).