[erlang-questions] Erlang web framework

[Tristan Sloughter]

Hmmm, I am going to have to look at Misultin closer. For some reason I
thought it was another webserver not something to sit above Webmachine, I
may just use that for Maru.

And I agree it is more difficult than prepackaged frameworks. That is why
I'm making maru. It will make json->record, record->json, save/edit to
database, with using -extend you can easily make a RESTful resource for
some maru_model (generated with a parse transform from a record (with
types). Basically if you just wanted to have a model X and be able to
GET/PUSH/PULL/DELETE it right away all that can be done by just creating
the model file with the record and the resource file that calls to
maru_web_base. I'll be making tools like "maru gen model X" to create these
modules of course.

Also I'll be adding support for associations (-belongsTo(), -hasMany())
soon. Right now its coded but has to be generalized out of my production
app to maru. Its based on how Batman.js handles associations, but that just
means the form of the JSON they send, nothing special or out of the
ordinary.

Tristan

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Berman <rexxe98@REDACTED> wrote:

> I'm doing something similar to Tristan.  I'm using Webmachine in the
> backend which houses all the db, business, and security logic and using
> SpineJS and CoffeeScript for my front-end which communicates with
> Webmachine using JSON.  After writing a web app this way, I have to say
> that it is more difficult than most prepackaged frameworks, however, it
> allows you a complete separation of concern, forces you to really think
> about your security, and also forces you to focus on a solid, usable REST
> API.  The cool thing is that you are using your own REST API and if you're
> looking for an API for your service/web app, you can find and fix any pain
> points that someone else might encounter using your API.
>
> Unlike Tristan, however, I separated all my sessioning into a completely
> separate web app from the main Webmachine web app.  I saw the Webmachine
> app as something I wanted to keep as a completely standalone service and so
> I basically wrote an intermediate app using Misultin which proxies messages
> from the front-end to Webmachine adding any necessary authentication
> tokens, dealing with sessions, and any web security features.  As for web
> security, this is built into my Misultin app and I followed this guide:
> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html.  It's pretty easy to
> implement them yourself.
>
> I haven't used Opa, but I have used NodeJS and I was very tempted to use
> it for the intermediate app.  You might want to look at Express for NodeJS
> if you're looking for more of a framework.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Tristan Sloughter <
> tristan.sloughter@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> I've tried pretty much every Erlang web framework (some more than
>> others).
>>
>> Could you explain what you mean about Lift's security, 'ajax+html
>> component security'?
>>
>> The main frameworks are: ChicagoBoss (Railish), Nitrogen (evet-based
>> architecture), Zotonic (a CMS/framework in my opinion, they may just say
>> CMS), Erlang Web (the one I have least played with but does seem the most
>> OTP fitting) and Erlyweb.
>>
>> I haven't personally been happy with building full projects in any of
>> these (though Zotonic has been GREAT for projects that just need a CMS like
>> my wedding website, and Chicago BOSS looks great for MVC style Erlang web
>> development) and now I'm doing my own which is based on Webmachine and
>> Batman.js with security based on resource access control using Seresye (
>> https://github.com/afiniate/seresye) and an Erlang security framework
>> Genbu.
>>
>> So the idea is the client is built completely in Batman.js and
>> communicates (JSON) with the Webmachine based RESTful interface of the
>> backend (which I am greatly simplifying the necessary steps needed to
>> build). And then all security on the backend is based on the idea of
>> writing a rules engine with Seresye which will be simplified for web
>> resource/db use as part of Genbu (which I am moving all web session,
>> authentication logic from Maru to).
>>
>> I hope to have the pieces for Genbu and Maru and an example, for others
>> to start using it, committed tomorrow or sometime this week, but
>> http://claimstrade.github.com/maru/ is the "idea" -- well its more than
>> an idea I am building this while building a real business on top of it. So
>> it is taking what I find I need as I build the business and then adding it
>> to the framework, or taking out and moving to the framework. Also is based
>> on a couple years of Webmachine based web development and what I saw went
>> wrong in some cases as we did so.
>>
>> That said, and even though this is an Erlang list so I hope I'm not
>> yelled at :), I have to also point you at Opa (http://opalang.org/)
>> because I really like it for building sites. And it is very secure
>> and statically typed (even your frontend code is compiled and type
>> checked!).
>>
>> Tristan
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:41 PM, eigenfunction <emeka_1978@REDACTED>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody, i would loke to get my feet wet into erlang web
>>> development so i wanted to ask: what is the state of erlang web
>>> frameworks? i did google a little bit and found a couple  of
>>> interesting projects. But having written some web applications in
>>> webobjects before, security is paramount for me. I have been playing
>>> with "scala lift" lately and wanted to know if the erlang community
>>> has something of the sort, i mean easy ajax + html component security.
>>> Or something in the line of smaltalk seaside. Thank you very much
>>> indeed.
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