@kommen If you're using handlers, then it is totally fine to assoc the DB and connection onto the request.

We support handler functions because they're familiar to people who come from Ring or Rack

But a handler function really just gets wrapped into an interceptor that passes the request to the handler and assoc's the return as the response. In other words, it's purely a convenience.

In my own apps, I don't use handlers. I just write everything as interceptors. I find that gives me more opportunities to make small interceptors that I can recompose for different routes. (That's what the example in your-first-api does.)