horse VS brookfreepascal

JWT with Delphi: https://github.com/paolo-rossi/delphi-jose-jwt If you need to do client development, I recently discovered RR4D, that looks really easy: https://github.com/viniciussanchez/RESTRequest4Delphi If you need to develop a server you can try ICS and their THTTPAppSrv, I use that myself with some success. Or have a look at https://github.com/HashLoad/horse - I haven't tried that one yet, but it looks very straight forward.

> There's a pantheon of various components for Internet protocols available that work well, I have used REST and SOAP amongst others.

Clients, sure. But something like the Spring framework for Java or ASP.NET for .NET, or even Ruby on Rails or Django for Python? Not quite.

Closest that I could find was Brook: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_for_Free_Pascal but it appears that it isn't in very active development at all (last release was 3 years ago: https://github.com/risoflora/brookfreepascal)

There is a nice page about web development on the Wiki: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Portal:Web_Development

But for the most part, even there you won't find the "one true way" to develop new enterprise apps or other larger projects.

There is fcl-web (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-web) and fpWeb (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpWeb_Tutorial) but both lean more towards writing your own web server and handling the lower level HTTP interaction, vs what something like Django would let you do, mostly thinking of what your app should do, not so much about how it will look on a per-request basis: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/intro/tutorial01/