[Gardeners] web framework

[James Fleming]

Hi there,

> can anyone recommend me the 'simplest' (as in,
> will-later-find-myself-doing-ad-hoc-stuff-but-it-was-easy-to-grasp-at-first) web framework for common lisp?

I can recommend Hunchentoot. I used to use Araneida, but it seems to
have fallen to the competition.

Just beware the gotchas about making sure you get the latest versions of
all the dependent libraries. I'm not the only one who spent quite some
time wondering why he couldn't get the demo to work (flexichains, from
vague memory).


>there are plenty to choose from, but I don't have time to test them all, and I have a small project that I would like to start coding in common lisp,

Hunchentoot, then, with CL-WHO to produce the actual HTML. There's also
a gotcha with CL-WHO, incidentally, regarding when you should use
(format t ...) and when to use (format nil ...), but if the output isn't
appearing when you expect, that's the first thing to check.

You might also want to check out UCW (the UnCommon Web). However, it's
based on continuations; while they're a nifty language feature, you
might want to limit the number of learning curves that you're climbing
at any one time.

I'm sure there are a couple of others, but these seem to be the main
contenders. Once you've gotten yourself up and running, definitely check
out all the options and see what you make of them from there.


Cheers,
James


> but I want the less 'protocolar' one, I've worked with 'mvc' style frameworks this far, but any other paradigm will do, as long as its lightweight and has passable documentation.
> 
> thanks!
> I still don't trust myself to evaluate this kind of things in lisp, and
> want to start as fast as possible, sorry for my newbie-ism.
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