pluggdapps 0.41dev

Pluggdapps component system, web framework

Pluggdapps is a component system in python that can’t get any simpler. A meta framework providing a platform to define interfaces and implement plugins. It comes with a configuration system, web-framework, scaffold, command-line script and much more …

Pluggdapps web framework, when used with tayra template language, provide a plugin system that cut across MVC design pattern. Web-apps can be developed, packaged and distributed as plugins.

Features

• simple plugin system based on interface specification.

• a platform to develop, package and distribute interfaces and plugins.

• extend the platform to populate additional context for plugin objects.

• an awesome configuration system.

  • configuration can be done with one or more .ini files.

  • browser based configuration that can be persisted in a backend store.

  • pluggable backend store for web-based configuration. Uses sqlite3 as default backend.

• command line script for administration / testing,

  • sub-command to list matching views for application(s).

  • sub-command to execute unit test-cases.

  • sub-command to start web-server.

  • implement new sub-commands, outside pluggdapps package, as plugins.

• define framework by specifying interfaces. Implement them as pluggable components.

• web application framework.

  • web framework, when used with tayra template language, provide a plugin system that cut across MVC design pattern.

  • framework is define by a set of interface specification and implemented as pluggable components.

  • configure the framework or even replace parts of it.

  • host hundreds of web-application in the same environment by configuring mount-points similar to apache virtual-hosts.

  • application can generate urls for other hosted applications.

  • native web server using epoll.

  • automatic server-restart when project files are modified, useful in development mode.

• package and distribute plugins as .egg files.

• documentation. Every aspect of pluggdapps is adequately documented. Although it might be a little difficult for beginners, it is fairly accessible for those who are comfortable with python and web-development.

• License: GPLv3 license <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

• Requires: Linux, Python-3.x.

• Status: Core design stable. Not expected to change.

Related links

• Package documentation.

• Changelog.

• Roadmap.

To hack the guts of pluggdapps check-out the source code from github or from google-code. Note that the orginal repository is maintained with mercurial and uses hg-git plugin to publish it on github.