AFI Architecture

Mizan is an Application Framework Interface (AFI) — the server-client unification layer.

Package layout

Tree organized by role.

backends/         server protocol adapters
    mizan-django/      Django adapter
    mizan-fastapi/     FastAPI adapter (AFI-common scope)
    mizan-rust-axum/   Rust/Axum adapter (handlers, errors, IR export)
    mizan-tauri/       Tauri adapter — Mizan calls served in-process
    mizan-ts/          TypeScript adapter (proves the protocol is language-agnostic)
frontends/        client kernel + per-framework adapters + transports
    mizan-base/        framework-agnostic kernel (@mizan/base); owns data, status,
                       error; adapters subscribe through the MizanTransport interface
    mizan-react/       React contexts + hooks over the kernel
    mizan-vue/         Vue composables over the kernel
    mizan-svelte/      Svelte stores/runes over the kernel
    mizan-rust/        Rust client kernel
    mizan-tauri-transport/    MizanTransport over Tauri IPC
    mizan-webview-transport/  MizanTransport over a webview message channel
    mizan-webview-channels/   channel transport over a webview bridge
cores/            shared language-level primitives
    mizan-python/      @client decorator, registry, MWT, HMAC cache keys
    mizan-rust/        Rust core — IR build (build_ir()), registry
    mizan-rust-macros/ #[derive(Mizan)] / #[mizan::client] proc-macros
protocol/         protocol-level tooling
    mizan-codegen/   codegen — Rust binary (crate `mizan-codegen`); reads KDL IR,
                     emits typed clients. Targets: stage1, react, vue, svelte,
                     channels, python, rust. Askama templates under templates/.
    mizan-generate/  thin npm-package launcher (bin/launcher.mjs) dispatching to
                     the compiled mizan-codegen binary per platform
workers/          runtime workers / bridges
    mizan-ssr/       Bun subprocess used by the Django template backend

Two orthogonal products

RPC — typed client generation via codegen
SSR — server rendering via the Bun bridge

Independent and composable. Either ships standalone; together they compose.

Kernel model

The client kernel (@mizan/base) is the one hard thing. It owns ContextState<T> = {data, status, error}, the context registry (registerContext), mizanCall / mizanFetch, server-driven merge and invalidate, and initSession. It reaches the backend through a pluggable MizanTransport (call / fetch); the default is the HTTP httpTransport(), swapped via configure({ transport }) for Tauri / webview hosts. Per-framework adapters are thin idiomatic wrappers that subscribe to the kernel. Codegen emits typed bindings against the framework adapter's surface — a React developer gets useEcho() hooks, a Vue developer gets useEcho() composables, a Svelte developer gets readable stores. Same kernel underneath.

KDL is the IR

The Mizan IR is KDL — the LLVM-IR-equivalent of the system. Every backend adapter produces KDL describing its registered functions, contexts, types, and invalidation graph. Every codegen target consumes KDL. KDL is the contract; everything else (REST envelopes, OpenAPI documents, framework idioms) is sediment around it.

The IR must be validated against multiple adapters before it is considered stable. Single-adapter validation hides assumptions — divergence between adapters is what the IR exists to prevent.

Forward-direction primitives:

Each backend adapter emits KDL on stdout from an IR-export command: FastAPI python -m mizan_fastapi.ir <module>, Django python manage.py export_mizan_ir, Rust a consumer-side cargo bin that calls mizan_core::build_ir(). Python's build_ir() walks mizan_core.registry. The IR grammar (type / function / context / channel nodes) is parsed by mizan-codegen's src/ir.rs; fixtures live at protocol/mizan-codegen/tests/fixtures/*.kdl.
protocol/mizan-codegen/src/fetch.rs spawns the configured source command and parses the KDL it writes.
Codegen reads KDL directly — no OpenAPI envelope, no openapi-typescript, no per-backend converter divergence. The former JavaScript/Node two-stage codegen (openapi-typescript plus .mjs adapters) has been deleted; codegen is now the single Rust binary.
Edge manifest, MWT claims, and other protocol artifacts derive from the same registry/IR.

Launch surface

Python (Django) + React. Vue and Svelte ship as v1 alongside React. TypeScript backend (mizan-ts) proves the protocol is portable.

Why the AFI shape

Quadratic ecosystem growth (N server adapters × M client adapters) collapses to linear (one adapter per stack) when both sides communicate through a shared protocol.

Invariants

All cross-package communication goes through the protocol. No direct cross-package dependencies.
New adapters land as new packages, not as modifications to existing ones.
Framework adapters wrap the kernel in framework idioms — they don't bypass it. Codegen targets the adapter, not the raw kernel.

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