[Cuis] [web] Nancy

[Germán Arduino]

Hi Casey:

Even when I'm not familiar with Sinatra I full agree with your thinking. I
was dealing  a lot of time with the idea of a small web framework oriented
to typical business applications.

In such sense I evaluated the port of Mewa (a meta level predecessor of
Magritte) to some minimal web framework, my own work in WebClient, some
work (derived from a project that I did for Pharo) to make Cuis work in
RedHat OpenShift, some tries to port a minimal web framework as HV2, etc.

Unfortunately I've delayed most of these initiatives for the lack of free
time.

But yes, I would support a sort of web framework to write typical business
applications with Cuis.

Cheers.

2015-03-29 23:55 GMT-03:00 Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>:

> So I'm a fan of this minimalist web framework for Ruby named Sinatra.
>
> I had the idea a couple of years ago that I'd like to do something similar
> for Smalltalk. Squeak is still a very fat server, so Cuis seemed a good
> host environment.
>
> The cool thing about Sinatra is that it's bare-bones. The other cool thing
> about it is, you can just drop in whatever tech you want to use while you
> worry about the details. Want a canvas-style API for generating HTML? Drop
> in Erector. Etc., etc.
>
> Seems like we should have something like this in the Squeak community,
> because Seaside -- while very powerful -- is also very complex and it would
> be difficult for the minimalist crowd (read: us) to keep pace with it and
> incompatibilities we have with Pharo.
>
> Cuis is the right foundation to build a Sinatra-like library on, at least
> right now. It also fits well with our one-human, one-machine understanding
> ethic.
>
> I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I have (in my mind's eye)
> a web framework for Smalltalk called Nancy, after Frank Sinatra's daughter.
> I stumbled over the HTTP layer a bit because protocols are not my
> profession, and Andreas unexpectedly passed. Sounds like someone has
> handled the problem of making his web stuff work on our system, and a
> lightweight, flexible web framework for Cuis seems like a timely adventure,
> now.
>
> I'd like to recommend visiting http://www.sinatrarb.com, and pay
> attention to do...end. See that this approach is elegant and flexible, that
> it lends itself identically to Smalltalk block closures.
>
> If you think I'm not nuts, and you'd like to jump in on this idea, please
> do reply. If I have more than one taker, maybe we can make a summer project
> of it. Start serving our own source code!
>
> Cheers,
>
> --C
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