A list of minimalist frameworks(simple and lightweight).
List of minimalist frameworks
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List of minimalist frameworks
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#3I hadn't heard of Cuba before. Grape[1] would also be worth listing in the Ruby section. It's an actively maintained microframework for REST APIs.
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#4Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
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#5Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
Not necessarily. It's minimalism in terms of a framework (though in more objective terms I guess you would be right.) To me that means having not much more than a url router and a way to do MVC - no asset management, no HTML helpers, no ORM, no default templating language.
I'm surprised Slim Framework isn't listed under PHP though, is that not considered minimalist?
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#6Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
I read 'minimalist framework' as being a framework that is minimalist, as opposed to a framework for people that are building minimalist software.
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#7Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
I agree. Having just finished a project with Flask, I ended up using no less than 8 million dependencies that I'd never heard of. "BYO everything" frameworks would be more appropriate, but even then, Flask brings with it an entire basement of sub-frameworks that I would argue make it so that you might as well just use a full-fledged framework like Django.
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#8Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
Not using a framework requires creating your own and just not calling it a framework. One way or another you're using a framework, it's just a matter of whether your framework is grid-only, like Skeleton, Suzy, etc, or includes a ton of additional bells and whistles like Bootstrap and Foundation.
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#9Isn't "minimalist framework" a contradiction? It seems like if you were going for minimalism you would not use a framework.
Not necessarily. It's minimalism in terms of a framework (though in more objective terms I guess you would be right.) To me that means having not much more than a url router and a way to do MVC - no asset management, no HTML helpers, no ORM, no default templating language. I'm surprised Slim Framework isn't listed under PHP though, is that not considered minimalist?
> no HTML helpers, [...] no default templating language
Flask has HTML helpers and uses Jinja2 as its template language, though...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily. It's minimalism in terms of a framework (though in more objective terms I guess you would be right.) To me that means having not much more than a url router and a way to do MVC - no asset management, no HTML helpers, no ORM, no default templating language. I'm surprised Slim Framework isn't listed under PHP though, is that not considered minimalist?
> no HTML helpers, [...] no default templating language Flask has HTML helpers and uses Jinja2 as its template language, though...
Hm... well maybe my definition of 'minimal' is a bit more minimal than the norm then.