Pliny

Pliny is a very opinionated web framework and set of tools to help teams build modern web services and applications.

Commands

Platform commands

pliny platform:setup

Bootstraps the local pliny development platform. Installs and runs the core platform services and developer tools. You must have Docker Desktop installed first.

pliny platform:start

Startup the pliny platform services. You must have run platform:setup before.

pliny platform:stop

Stop the pliny platform services.

pliny platform

Show the current status of the local dev platform.

App commands

pliny create [app|service]

Creates the skeleton for a new app or service. An "app" is full-stack with a React front-end and Python backend. A service is just a Python backend that serves an API.

pliny run

Runs the app or service in the current directory. By default the app frontend and backend are run together in the foreground.

The runtime platform

The Pliny framework assumes that services run on a faily very rich runtime platform. This runtime allows us to build rich applications easily, rather than having to cobble together a service component, client library, and stitch it into our application.

The core services provided by the platform include:

- Database
- Message queue
- Config and secrets store
- Service discovery
- Email gateway

In order to support a faithful environment for local development and testing, Pliny includes a local dev version of the runtime platform. Services run in Docker on the local machine. You can use the pliny platform commands to setup and manage the local runtime.