[erlang-questions] Which technology I should choose?

[Lee Sylvester]

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