Re: [Chicken-users] Web applications

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Tobia,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:58:04 +0100 Tobia Conforto <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm about to design a new, very AJAXy web application and I'd like to
> write it in Chicken, plus jQuery on the client side.
> 
> What framework/server/storage engine/miscellaneous eggs/deployment
> tactics do you recommend or have worked with in the past? 
> 
> Here's my limited experience.
> 
> I've recently written a simple web forum in Chicken, with just 2
> presentation cgi scripts (view layer), 1 cgi script to receive the
> forms (controller layer), 1 "include" file with the database functions
> (model layer) and another include with miscellaneous utilities.
> I've made use of the excellent sxml-tools egg, the decent cgi-util
> egg, and sqlite3 for database storage.
> All HTML is generated from s-expressions, using sxml tools.
> The CGI scripts are compiled into binaries and run by Apache.
> 
> This setup has worked very well for this private forum of mine with 10
> users and 3 cgi pages, but I fear it would not scale well for bigger
> applications, although I wonder by how much, if anybody has any
> experience to share.
> 
> 
> I'm going to look into Spiffy next, and the egg repository at large,
> but I thought I'd ask for your real-world experience before making up
> my mind.

I've been using spiffy + ajax + postgresql + web-scheme + json + other
eggs for web programming and feeling comfortable with that.

One example is (in portuguese)
http://spiffy.freedom.ind.br/index.ws?action=main&user=1234&passwd=demo

Best wishes,
Mario