[erlang-questions] ANN: ezwebframe - an easy web framework

[Joe Armstrong]

ezwebframe
==========

https://github.com/joearms/ezwebframe

Pronounced "Easy web frame."

About
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Ezwebframe attempts to make web programming just a little bit easier.

>From Erlang point of view the browser *is* an Erlang process.

Assume we have a web page populated with divs. For example:

    <div id="a">
      ...
    </div>

    <div id="b">
      ...
    </div>

Erlang thinks the browser is a process. To fill div a with HTML an
Erlang process evaluates the command:

     Browser ! [{cmd, fill_div}, {id, a}, {txt, B}]

Where B is a binary containing HTML.

In the browser controls can be programmed to send messages to Erlang,
for example, when we click on a button in the browser the Erlang
process controlling the window will be sent a message which can be
received with the statement:

    receive
       {Browser, {struct, [{clicked, ButtonName}]}} ->
           ...
    end

All this is achieved using a thin JSON layer over websockets and
with cowboy managing the websockets.

Cheers

/Joe
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