Re: [Chicken-users] Web applications

[Daishi Kato]

Hi,

Although it is not what you're imagining,
you might have some interests in my project.
Please have a look at the site:
http://w1.nexpiration.jp:1088/waitless/
Two points:
- the server-side code is written in Scheme.
- the server-side code is written using web browsers.

I've never used jQuery, but it looks handy.
I'll give it a try.

Best,
Daishi

At Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:58:04 +0100,
Tobia Conforto wrote:
> 
> Hello Chicken all-knowers,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Tobia