On 22 October 2017 at 12:24, Patrick Vrijlandt <nieuws...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hello list, > > I would like your recommendation on the choice of a web framework. > > The project is completely new, there are no histories to take into account > (current solutions are paper-based). The website involves questionnaires > that will be developed, filled out and stored. Users are not programmers or > developers. They should be authenticated. Version control is required. > Internationalization is not an issue. I expect that the project will add > additional requirements and complexity later on that I can not foresee yet. > I'm targeting a single deployment (maybe a second on a development machine). > I usually work on Windows, but Linux can be considered.
If you intend to put this on a server, and you probably do since you’re talking about web frameworks, a Linux machine is your best bet for that. Windows isn’t a good platform for making web servers out of. (Your development machine can probably run Windows.) > I'm not afraid to learn a (=one) new framework (that would actually be fun) > but trying out a lot of them is not feasible. My current goal is a > demonstration version of the project as a proof of concept. I may want to > hand it over to a commercial solution at that stage. > > I'm an experienced python programmer but not an experienced web developer. A > few years ago I read some books about Zope and Plone, but never did serious > development with those. I currently maintain an intranet site in MoinMoin. I > assume Zope could still be a potential choice, but it may have lost the > vibrancy of a few years ago. Also, I would not know which version to choose > (Zope 4, BlueBream, or something like Grok). The problem seems too > complicated for micro frameworks like bottle of Flask. Django could be the > next alternative. Zope is effectively dead these days. IMO your best bet would be Django: * built-in database support * built-in user authentication support * built-in administrator panel * i18n support available for when you need it * it’s a modern, friendly web framework If you went with Flask, you’d end up with a pile of plugins (for auth, for databases, for other things) and reimplement half of Django, badly. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
