[Cuis] [web] Nancy

[Frank Shearar]

On 30 March 2015 at 03:55, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm a fan of this minimalist web framework for Ruby named Sinatra.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

You know about http://nancyfx.org/ right?

And there's also the (wonderfully named!) http://frankfs.net/

http://suave.io/ also has an interesting take on web server, although
it's not thematically named.

frank