Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?

#1

Post by skanev » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 9:49 PM UTC

What web framework(s) do you guys (and girls) use? And why not their competitors?

Re: Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?

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Post by noodle » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 10:09 PM UTC

codeigniter and rails.

rails because, well, its rails. building something out is typically quick and easy.

codeigniter for those cases when i need to get my hands dirty on a lower level and do some non-standard things. its a minimalist framework that doesn't add much bloat, overhead or other things in your way.

i kind of mentally compare it to java and c.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?

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Post by rickharrison » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 10:14 PM UTC

codeigniter and more recently kohana.

I like codeigniter a lot because you have more control over things. Frameworks that get things done extremely fast are nice, but I like to have more control over things. And Kohana was modeled after codeigniter, but in completely PHP5, which is why I like it the most.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?

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Post by abdulhaq » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 10:22 PM UTC

If you do it yourself, does it count as a framework?

Server: python, postgresql, cherrypy, simplejson

Client: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Dojo, AJAX.

All the HTML is loaded up front and then AJAX for all the rest. Dojo insulates me from browser quirks. TDD Python is what I use at work (and love) and is good for complex algorithms (language morphology, in arabic).

I don't use an all-encompassing framework because I need total UTF-8 support and I feel more comfortable with the general tailorability of the lower-level libraries over the likes of Django, Rails.