From ae03697698c241d9cee0823ac2d6b8325725f303 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raúl Benencia <id@rbenencia.name>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 18:25:07 -0300
Subject: Inline middleware chain

---
 internal/handlers/middleware.go | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 main.go                         |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/handlers/middleware.go b/internal/handlers/middleware.go
index 7ad00a0..5270a1f 100644
--- a/internal/handlers/middleware.go
+++ b/internal/handlers/middleware.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ package handlers
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"github.com/justinas/alice"
 	"net/http"
 	"regexp"
 
@@ -90,9 +89,11 @@ func disableCacheMiddleware(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	})
 }
 
-// MiddlewareChain receives a Shoelaces environment and returns a chains of
-// middlewares to apply to every request.
-func MiddlewareChain(env *environment.Environment) alice.Chain {
+type middleware func(http.Handler) http.Handler
+
+// MiddlewareChain receives a Shoelaces environment and returns a handler with
+// all global middlewares applied.
+func MiddlewareChain(env *environment.Environment, h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	// contextMiddleware sets the environment key in the request Context.
 	contextMiddleware := func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -101,10 +102,17 @@ func MiddlewareChain(env *environment.Environment) alice.Chain {
 		})
 	}
 
-	return alice.New(
+	middlewares := []middleware{
 		secureHeadersMiddleware,
 		disableCacheMiddleware,
 		environmentMiddleware,
 		contextMiddleware,
-		loggingMiddleware)
+		loggingMiddleware,
+	}
+
+	for i := len(middlewares) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		h = middlewares[i](h)
+	}
+
+	return h
 }
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 040ba32..3b8cd15 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import (
 
 func main() {
 	env := environment.New()
-	app := handlers.MiddlewareChain(env).Then(router.ShoelacesRouter(env))
+	app := handlers.MiddlewareChain(env, router.ShoelacesRouter(env))
 
 	env.Logger.Info("listening", "component", "main", "transport", "http", "addr", env.BindAddr)
 	env.Logger.Error("server exited", "component", "main", "err", http.ListenAndServe(env.BindAddr, app))
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