[erlang-questions] Which technology I should choose?

[Lee Sylvester]

By cleanliness, I simply mean the variety of hooks at my disposal.  It means I can compartmentalise in a very uniform way.  I’m not familiar enough with Cowboy to do that.  I blame the docs.  In my opinion, neither Cowboy nor WebMachine have great (exhaustive) docs.  However, that said, the reason I can do what I do in WebMachine is because I have to.  At least Cowboy let’s me do what I want with the few hooks I know about.

Yes, I can read the source, but I don’t have time :-)

Lee



On 12 Jun 2014, at 16:15, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:

> But what's this cleanliness you speak of? Can you provide some examples?
> 
> On 06/12/2014 05:14 PM, Lee Sylvester wrote:
>> I actually think Cowboy has the most potential.  Mostly because Cowboy receives the most frequent updates.  However, I also love WebMachine and it’s cleanliness.  It would be good to have a secondary layer for Cowboy one of these days, that helps scaffold complex but typical web server requirements.  I’ve been thinking quite a bit about it.
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12 Jun 2014, at 08:56, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>>> No offense taken or anything. Just the way you say it makes it sound like you didn't know about cowboy_rest. cowboy_rest implements the same state machine as WebMachine, and the Cowboy router implements a similar routing mechanism to WebMachine, so using Cowboy or WebMachine should be equivalent for REST tasks, simple or not. It's the same callbacks and concepts etc.
>>> 
>>> (If you haven't guessed from this post, yes, WebMachine was a big inspiration for many things in Cowboy.)
>>> 
>>> On 06/12/2014 01:23 AM, Lee Sylvester wrote:
>>>> Hey Loïc,
>>>> 
>>>> I meant nothing by it.  I had to build a Socket.IO compatible server
>>>> recently, and Cowboy was my first choice.  I simply find WebMachine gets
>>>> the job done when that job is a super simple task and I need full REST
>>>> without thinking too hard about it.
>>>> 
>>>> Lee
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 17:21, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED
>>>> <mailto:essen@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Cowboy has had Webmachine based REST for more than 2 years now. Am I
>>>>> missing something obvious that Webmachine has or are people simply not
>>>>> aware of the implementation in Cowboy? If there is something that can
>>>>> be improved I'd like to hear about it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Loïc Hoguin
>>>>> http://ninenines.eu
>>>>> 
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> From:Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED
>>>>> <mailto:lee.sylvester@REDACTED>>
>>>>> Sent:Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:58:48 +0200
>>>>> To:Ivan Carmenates García <co7eb@REDACTED <mailto:co7eb@REDACTED>>
>>>>> Cc:erlang-questions@REDACTED <mailto:questions@REDACTED>
>>>>> Subject:Re: [erlang-questions] Which technology I should choose?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I find Cowboy provides a lot of flexibility, but WebMachine provides a
>>>>> “quick to market” solution.  WebMachine also helps you build cleaner
>>>>> code.  Mochiweb is useful, but since WebMachine is built on it, I’d
>>>>> say it’s WebMachine hands down.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lee
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 16:42, Ivan Carmenates García <co7eb@REDACTED
>>>>> <mailto:co7eb@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I’ve been wondering if I could ask for an advice from the community
>>>>>> to help me choose a good tec for a project I am developing.
>>>>>> My primordial priority is not to be productive, I like pure Erlang as
>>>>>> it is, no dummy frameworks for productivity, I’m looking for
>>>>>> something clean and powerful at the same time, I already choose Extjs
>>>>>> 4.2 for the view, because the project is about accounting and
>>>>>> statistics, and the graphics and visual that extjs gives is a very
>>>>>> nice and interesting fact. I have a weak choice for yaws for the
>>>>>> server at the time.
>>>>>> What I would like to know is if there is another web server better
>>>>>> than yaws to combine it with extjs, the idea is to export an API REST
>>>>>> or another kind of API that allows a good communication with extjs
>>>>>> using json, also that supports for web-socket or any real-time server
>>>>>> push technology, that is primordial since I need a real-time app, ex:
>>>>>> Chicago Boss have a very interesting mechanism to do that, since it
>>>>>> use a long-polling strategy, that is very interesting, the only
>>>>>> problem and almost impossible to deal with CB is the errors
>>>>>> formatting and definition. A good documentation is required too.
>>>>>> I hope someone can help me to decide.
>>>>>> I will appreciate all kind of suggestions.
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Ivan.
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Loïc Hoguin
>>> http://ninenines.eu
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Loïc Hoguin
> http://ninenines.eu