Web Framework

[ockhamwasright]

I just picked up newLISP a couple of weeks ago and it is absolutely the coolest thing ever. I expected it to be powerful but rather clunky based on my experience with Common Lisp many years ago. What a wonderful surprise -  full of stunningly clever implementations of remarkably good ideas.



I have a couple of small web projects that I'd ordinarily use python / web2py for but I would like to try at least one of them with newLISP - partly because I'd like to gain more experience with this great language, and partly because I think it would be a lot more fun.



Are there any web frameworks (like Rails for Ruby, or Django or web2py for Python) available for newLISP?



I would appreciate any help. Thanks for your thoughtful consideration.

[Lutz]

There is no complete framework yet, but there are several modules available for different aspects of web programming, all accessible from here:



http://www.newlisp.org/modules/">http://www.newlisp.org/modules/



an on this page you find a Web section with smaller examples:



http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Tips_and_Tricks">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Tips_and_Tricks



sourcecode for two complete web applications can be found here:



http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Applications">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Applications



ps: welcome to newLISP

[cormullion]

Everybody does their own thing at the moment. Because newLISP encourages exploration and experimentation, I'm not sure whether many of us want to 'adopt' a standard framework - it's much more fun (and instructive) re-inventing the wheel to your own design, than simply using someone else's... :)



Jeff's written useful web-related modules; Lutz's wiki is clever and compact; Fanda's newlispweb system is an elegant way of publishing small web sites; Didi's ShortNotizer is also intriguing. The newlisp-on-noodles project was originally intended to build such a framework, too, but sadly it didn't get much past the setting-up stage. Search this forum for more info...



I'm on my second blogging application - trying out various ideas while trying to learn something about cgi/web stuff. I'm not really sharing my code at the moment, though, since I don't understand it myself yet!

[hilti]

The "Dragonfly web framework" is my attempt for newLISP.



Here are the links to the blog

http://dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com/">http://dragonfly-newlisp.blogspot.com/



and the project on Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/">http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly-newlisp/



Your feedback is welcome. Have fun!



hilti

[cormullion]

This is great. One problem: although I can load the page, there are no styles or Javascript.... This is after running:

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sudo newlisp -http -d 85 -w /Users/me/Sites/newlisp_financier

But I can see the styles etc if I modify templates/partials/header.tpl to contain this:

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(Dragonfly:css "screen" "/css/screen.css") %
(Dragonfly:css "screen" "/css/panel.css") %

(angle brackets omitted for forum) instead of the lines with two dots... Why is this?

[hilti]

Sorry for that bug. My styles came from safari cache, so I didn't notice the problem. I fixed it.



Thanks cormullion for mention it. Your path is correct.



Cheers

hilti