diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87a14835..f2624df6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,9 +19,15 @@
 ;       :path "/coffee/luwak"}
 ```
 
+### `reitit-ring`
+
+* `reitit.ring/default-handler` now works correctly with async ring
+* new helper `reitit.ring/router` to compose routes outside of a router.
+* `reitit.ring/create-resource-handler` function to serve static routes.
+
 ### `reitit-swagger`
 
-* New module to produce swagger-docs from routing tree, including `Coercion` definitions. Works with both middleware & interceptors.
+* New module to produce swagger-docs from routing tree, including `Coercion` definitions. Works with both middleware & interceptors and Schema & Spec.
 
 ```clj
 (require '[reitit.ring :as ring])
diff --git a/doc/SUMMARY.md b/doc/SUMMARY.md
index aec6ecfd..2ed3f462 100644
--- a/doc/SUMMARY.md
+++ b/doc/SUMMARY.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     * [Dev Workflow](advanced/dev_workflow.md)
 * [Ring](ring/README.md)
     * [Ring-router](ring/ring.md)
+    * [Static Resources](ring/static.md)
     * [Dynamic Extensions](ring/dynamic_extensions.md)
     * [Data-driven Middleware](ring/data_driven_middleware.md)
     * [Pluggable Coercion](ring/coercion.md)
@@ -28,5 +29,5 @@
     * [Compiling Middleware](ring/compiling_middleware.md)
 * [Performance](performance.md)
 * [Interceptors (WIP)](interceptors.md)
-* [Swagger & Openapi (WIP)](openapi.md)
+* [Swagger-support](swagger.md)
 * [FAQ](faq.md)
diff --git a/doc/ring/README.md b/doc/ring/README.md
index cf4968f0..d0d88756 100644
--- a/doc/ring/README.md
+++ b/doc/ring/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Ring
 
 * [Ring-router](ring.md)
+* [Static Resources](static.md)
 * [Dynamic Extensions](dynamic_extensions.md)
 * [Data-driven Middleware](data_driven_middleware.md)
 * [Pluggable Coercion](coercion.md)
diff --git a/doc/ring/static.md b/doc/ring/static.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..edc23ce5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ring/static.md
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Static Resources (Clojure Only)
+
+Static resources can be served with a help of `reitit.ring/create-resource-handler`. It takes optionally an options map and returns a ring handler to serve files from Classpath. It returns `java.io.File` instances, so ring adapters can use NIO to effective Stream the files.
+
+There are two options to serve the files.
+
+## Internal routes
+
+This is good option if static files can be from non-conflicting paths, e.g. `/assets/*`.
+
+
+```clj
+(require '[reitit.ring :as ring])
+
+(ring/ring-handler
+  (ring/router
+    [["/ping" (constantly {:status 200, :body "pong"})]
+     ["/assets/*" (ring/create-resource-handler)]])
+  (ring/create-default-handler))
+```
+
+## External routes
+
+To serve files from conflicting paths, e.g. `/*`, one option is to mount them to default-handler branch of `ring-handler`. This way, they are only served if none of the actual routes have matched.
+
+
+```clj
+(ring/ring-handler
+  (ring/router
+    ["/ping" (constantly {:status 200, :body "pong"})])
+  (ring/routes
+    (ring/create-resource-handler {:path "/"})
+    (ring/create-default-handler)))
+```
+
+## Configuration
+
+`reitit.ring/create-resource-handler` takes optionally an options map to configure how the files are being served.
+
+| key          | description |
+| -------------|-------------|
+| :parameter   | optional name of the wildcard parameter, defaults to unnamed keyword `:`
+| :root        | optional resource root, defaults to `"public"`
+| :mime-types  | optional extension->mime-type mapping, defaults to `reitit.ring.mime/default-types`
+| :path        | optional path to mount the handler to. Works only if mounted outside of a router.
+
+### TODO
+
+* support for things like `:cache`, `:last-modified?` and `:index-files`
+
+## Performance
+
+Thanks to NIO-support, serving files is quite fast. With late2015 Macbook PRO and `[ikitommi/immutant "3.0.0-alpha1"]` here are some numbers:
+
+##### Small file (17 bytes)
+
+```
+wrk -t2 -c100 -d2s http://localhost:3000/files/hello.json
+34055 requests/sec
+4.64MB / sec
+```
+
+##### large file (406kB)
+
+```
+wrk -t2 -c10 -d10s http://localhost:3000/files/image.jpg
+2798 request/sec
+1.08GB / sec
+```
+
+##### single huge file (775Mb)
+
+```
+wget http://localhost:3000/files/LilaBali2.pptx
+315 MB/s
+```
diff --git a/doc/swagger.md b/doc/swagger.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ddc9167
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/swagger.md
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Swagger
+
+Reitit supports [Swagger](https://swagger.io/) to generate route documentation. Documentation is extracted from existing coercion definitions `:parameters`, `:responses` and from a set of new doumentation keys.
+
+### Example
+
+Current `reitit-swagger` draft (with `reitit-ring` & data-specs):
+
+
+```clj
+(require '[reitit.ring :as ring])
+(require '[reitit.ring.swagger :as swagger])
+(require '[reitit.ring.coercion :as rrc])
+(require '[reitit.coercion.spec :as spec])
+
+(def app
+  (ring/ring-handler
+    (ring/router
+      ["/api"
+
+       ;; identify a swagger api
+       ;; there can be several in a routing tree
+       {:swagger {:id :math}}
+
+       ;; the (undocumented) swagger spec endpoint
+       ["/swagger.json"
+        {:get {:no-doc true
+               :swagger {:info {:title "my-api"}}
+               :handler (swagger/create-swagger-handler)}}]
+
+       ;; the (undocumented) swagger-ui
+       ;; [org.webjars/swagger-ui "3.13.4"]
+       ["/docs/*"
+        {:get {:no-doc true
+               :handler (ring/create-resource-handler
+                          {:root "META-INF/resources/webjars/swagger-ui"})}}]
+
+       ["/minus"
+        {:get {:summary "minus"
+               :parameters {:query {:x int?, :y int?}}
+               :responses {200 {:body {:total int?}}}
+               :handler (fn [{{{:keys [x y]} :query} :parameters}]
+                          {:status 200, :body {:total (- x y)}})}}]
+
+       ["/plus"
+        {:get {:summary "plus"
+               :parameters {:query {:x int?, :y int?}}
+               :responses {200 {:body {:total int?}}}
+               :handler (fn [{{{:keys [x y]} :query} :parameters}]
+                          {:status 200, :body {:total (+ x y)}})}}]]
+
+      {:data {:middleware [;; does not particiate in request processing
+                           ;; just defines specs for the extra keys
+                           swagger/swagger-middleware
+                           rrc/coerce-exceptions-middleware
+                           rrc/coerce-request-middleware
+                           rrc/coerce-response-middleware]
+              :coercion spec/coercion}})))
+```
diff --git a/modules/reitit-ring/src/reitit/ring.cljc b/modules/reitit-ring/src/reitit/ring.cljc
index be7ba179..edea424c 100644
--- a/modules/reitit-ring/src/reitit/ring.cljc
+++ b/modules/reitit-ring/src/reitit/ring.cljc
@@ -69,16 +69,14 @@
 
 #?(:clj
    (defn create-resource-handler
-     "A ring handler for handling classpath resources,
-      configured via options:
+     "A ring handler for serving classpath resources, configured via options:
 
-      | key          | description |
-      | -------------|-------------|
-      | :parameter   | optional name of the wildcard parameter, defaults to `:`
-      | :root        | optional resource root, defaults to `public`
-      | :mime-types  | optional extension->mime-type mapping, defaults to `reitit.ring.mime/default-types`
-      | :path        | optional path to mount the handler to. Works only outside of a router
-      "
+     | key          | description |
+     | -------------|-------------|
+     | :parameter   | optional name of the wildcard parameter, defaults to unnamed keyword `:`
+     | :root        | optional resource root, defaults to `\"public\"`
+     | :mime-types  | optional extension->mime-type mapping, defaults to `reitit.ring.mime/default-types`
+     | :path        | optional path to mount the handler to. Works only if mounted outside of a router."
      ([]
       (create-resource-handler nil))
      ([{:keys [parameter root mime-types path]
diff --git a/perf-test/clj/reitit/static_perf_test.clj b/perf-test/clj/reitit/static_perf_test.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bce93d0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perf-test/clj/reitit/static_perf_test.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+(ns reitit.static-perf-test
+  (:require [reitit.perf-utils :refer :all]
+            [immutant.web :as web]
+            [reitit.ring :as ring]
+            [clojure.java.io :as io]
+            [criterium.core :as cc]
+            [ring.util.mime-type :as mime]))
+
+;;
+;; start repl with `lein perf repl`
+;; perf measured with the following setup:
+;;
+;; Model Name:            MacBook Pro
+;; Model Identifier:      MacBookPro113
+;; Processor Name:        Intel Core i7
+;; Processor Speed:       2,5 GHz
+;; Number of Processors:  1
+;; Total Number of Cores: 4
+;; L2 Cache (per Core):   256 KB
+;; L3 Cache:              6 MB
+;; Memory:                16 GB
+;;
+
+(def app
+  (ring/ring-handler
+    (ring/router
+      [["/ping" (constantly {:status 200, :body "pong"})]
+       ["/files/*" (ring/create-resource-handler)]])
+    (ring/create-default-handler)))
+
+(def app
+  (ring/ring-handler
+    (ring/router
+      ["/ping" (constantly {:status 200, :body "pong"})])
+    (some-fn
+      (ring/create-resource-handler {:path "/files"})
+      (ring/create-default-handler))))
+
+(comment
+  (def server (web/run #'app {:port 3000, :dispatch? false, :server {:always-set-keep-alive false}}))
+  (routing-test))
+
+(comment
+  (let [file (-> "logback.xml" io/resource io/file)
+        name (.getName file)]
+
+    ;; 639ns
+    (cc/quick-bench
+      (mime/ext-mime-type name))
+
+
+    ;; 106ns
+    (cc/quick-bench
+      (ext-mime-type name))))