Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2007
43 pages
978-0-596-51371-9 (ISBN)
Description
With its flexibility, readability, and maturecode libraries, Python is a naturalchoice for developing agile and maintainableweb applications. Severalframeworks have emerged in the last fewyears that share ideas with Ruby on Railsand leverage the expressive nature of Python.This Short Cut will tell you whatyou need to know about the hottest fullstackframeworks: Django, Pylons, andTurboGears. Their philosophies, relativestrengths, and development status aredescribed in detail.What you won't find out is, "e;Which oneshould I use?"e; The short answer is thatall of them can be used to build web applications-the challenge for the readeris to find the one that fits his or herproject or coding style best.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
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Windows
File size
0,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-596-51371-9 (9780596513719)
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Content
- Intro
- Welcome to the Next Generation
- What Is a Web Framework and Why Would I Want to Use One?
- Why Python Now?
- What Makes a Framework "Next-Generation"?
- Django
- Philosophy: A Unified Package to Develop Applications Quickly
- Data Modeling: An ORM of One's Own
- Never Build Another Admin Interface
- Fast Templating: HTML, CSV, or Anything
- Variables
- Filters
- Tags
- Tying It All Together in the View
- Documentation
- Testing
- TurboGears
- Philosophy: a Megaframework at 1.0
- Powered by CherryPy
- XML Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Kid Templates
- Simple ORM with SQLObject
- Don't Invent It Here: Identity, Widgets, and Easy Ajax
- Identity
- Widgets
- CatWalk
- MochiKit
- Documentation
- Testing
- Pylons
- Philosophy: Component Reuse and Native WSGI Support
- Startup and Deployment: It's Okay to Eat Paste
- Can't Get There from Here: Routes
- Magical Data Modeling with SQLAlchemy
- Elixir
- Templating: Myghty, Mako, and More
- Testing
- Debugging
- WSGI: The Framework Killer
- Future Directions
- Can Anything "Beat" Rails?
- But Does It Scale?
- What About Zope?
- Will There Ever Be a "One True Framework"?
- Why Won't You Tell Me Which One I Should Use?
- From a product-centric perspective
- From a developer-centric perspective
- Last Thoughts
